Nas has done many collaborations within his career but this has to be by far one of the biggest! The school of Hip Hop has finally entered the Ivy League!
Today, Harvard University's W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African American Research announced the Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship. The fellowship was developed from the Dubois Institute and Hip-Hop Archive.
The Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship is dedicated to “find artists and scholars who demonstrate exceptional creative ability in the arts in connection with Hip-Hop”. The fellowship's mission is "to seek projects from scholars and artists that build on the rich and complex hip-hop tradition; to respect that tradition through historically grounded and contextualized critical insights; and most important, to represent one’s creative and/or intellectually rigorous contribution to hip-hop and the discourse through personal and academic projects."
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Director of the W. E. B. Dubois Institute, said “Nas is a true visionary, and he consistently shows how boundaries can be pushed and expanded to further the cause of education and knowledge. The work of the Du Bois Institute is enriched by the addition of the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship.”
Nas is one of the most lyrical rappers in the history of Hip Hop who has always demonstrated a great deal of intelligence. Congratulations Mr. Jones on your outstanding accomplishment. You are truly an inspiration for children and young adults of this generation to follow.
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