Hip-hop recording artist, Lupe Fiasco will teach a college course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 2022-2023 academic year.
The “Daydreamin'” artist announced the news on his Twitter account several days ago.
According to Complex, Lupe will teach this fall semester. The Chicago rapper
will take part in its MLK Visiting Professor Program for the 2022-2023 academic year.Lupe will teach with associate professor of theater, Eunice Ferreira and documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah.
This is not the first time the Food and Liquor emcee
has been involved with MIT. Lupe previously ran the “Code Cypher” programming competition a few semesters back. He had been teaching rapping ciphers in a “computational way” alongside professor of digital media Nick Montfort.Lupe’s last recorded album, Drogas Wave, was released in 2018. He plans to release his latest project, Drill Music In Zion
, June 24.HipHopDX reported that someone on Twitter reacted to the MIT that attending his course would amount to a “useless” degree. But, in a since-deleted Twitter response, he wrote, “Syllabus isn’t built yet but I’m thinking [there’s] fruit to be had in looking at neuromorphic computation through the lens of rap as a lossless data compression model with a dash of energy efficiency via refining Landauer’s principle applied to cytoarchitectonics. And some rapping…”