Lupe Fiasco continues his school run.
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins College has introduced it’ll 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 school on the prestigious college as a visiting artist.
In line with the press launch, “the brand new program will mix the assets and strengths of Peabody’s industry-leading Music Engineering and Know-how (MET) packages with the Conservatory’s lengthy historical past of innovation and excellence in efficiency coaching.”
The Hip Hop curriculum will middle on the talents of rapping, beatboxing, turntablism, and producing, alongside courses on the cultural historical past and evolution of hip-hop fashion, method, and know-how. The inaugural school 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 inventive coaching, this is a crucial alternative to direct Peabody’s strengths towards a necessary American cultural motion that has been a driving inventive pressure for greater than half a century,” stated 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 abilities 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 college of the celebrated Peabody Conservatory doing what I really like most, rap,” stated Lupe. “I sit 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 setting that gave rise to hip-hop and the style’s reputation and affect.”
Lupe is presently a visiting scholar and professor at MIT in addition to a Henry Crown Fellow on the Aspen Institute.
