Lupe Fiasco Joins School of Johns Hopkins College’s Peabody Institute

Lupe Fiasco continues his college run.

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins College has introduced it is going to launch the first-ever Bachelor of Music in Hip Hop program, bringing the primary undergraduate hip-hop diploma to the primary conservatory in the USA. Lupe Fiasco has joined as college on the prestigious college as a visiting artist.

In keeping with the press launch, “the brand new program will mix the assets and strengths of Peabody’s industry-leading Music Engineering and Expertise (MET) packages with the Conservatory’s lengthy historical past of innovation and excellence in efficiency coaching.”

The Hip Hop curriculum will heart on the talents of rapping, beatboxing, turntablism, and producing, alongside lessons on the cultural historical past and evolution of hip-hop type, approach, and know-how. The inaugural college is led by composer, producer, beatmaker, pianist, and professor Wendel Patrick.

“With Wendel Patrick’s considerate management, a burgeoning curiosity in packages on the intersection of music and know-how, and Peabody’s dedication to increasing the definition of Twenty first-century creative coaching, this is a crucial alternative to direct Peabody’s strengths towards a necessary American cultural motion that has been a driving creative power for greater than half a century,” mentioned Peabody Institute Dean Fred Bronstein. “Peabody has been a frontrunner on the intersection of artwork and training for over 150 years, and we couldn’t be extra excited to foster and help the skills of future generations of hip-hop artists in collaboration with those that are pushing the artwork kind ahead, and to take action in a metropolis, Baltimore, that itself has lengthy been fertile floor for the voices of hip-hop.”

“I’m honored to be becoming a member of the school of the celebrated Peabody Conservatory doing what I really like most, rap,” mentioned Lupe. “I stay up for advancing the examine and follow of rap and hip-hop into the higher echelons of upper training inside a program that can encompass the core efficiency coaching with coursework within the cultural historical past and sociopolitical surroundings that gave rise to hip-hop and the style’s recognition and affect.”

Lupe is at present a visiting scholar and professor at MIT in addition to a Henry Crown Fellow on the Aspen Institute.