Lupe Fiasco is Headed to Yale University

Lupe Fiasco is going to Yale University.

The Chicago native and the renowned rapper announced that he was selected as a Saybrook Fellow at the prestigious university. In fact, the Society of Spoken Art founder spread the news on his Twitter.

“Proud to announce I’ve been chosen to be a Saybrook Fellow at my OTHER favorite school in the whole wide world outside of MIT … @Yale.

Shout to Tom Near for nominating me to a place where against all odds two Chicagoans found a home in the Ivy League,” Super Lu tweeted.

The fellowship allows students and fellows to discuss topics in non-formal spaces.

“The fellowship is intended also to provide students and Fellows with opportunities for discussion in an atmosphere less formal than the classroom,” the webpage reads. "They represent a considerable potential for informal discussions of your interest, academic or otherwise, but you must seek them out and make your interests known. You will find that they are eager to meet you.”

The fellowship comes on the heels of Fiasco teaching a class at MIT titled Rap Theory and Practice: an Introduction.

Fiasco also shared that he is still at MIT. "I’m still at MIT lol…my Saybrook Fellowship at Yale is a different type of fellowship in parallel with my current MIT visiting scholar/professor post," Fiasco shared in a later tweet.

Last year, he spoke with Andscape about the class.

“The MIT relationship was formally initiated through someone who had a connection to one of the professors at MIT, Dr. Nick Montfort. I mentioned my interest in studying computational poets and trying to look for somebody who worked in that space…”

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