Nas will be honored at Harvard University..
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Nas will be honored at the Hip-Hop Archive and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University,
to establish the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship.
The Fellowship will provide selected scholars and artists with an opportunity to show that "education is real power,"
as it builds upon the achievements of those who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship and exceptional creative ability in the arts, in connection with the genre. The mission of the Hip-Hop Archive is threefold:
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 importantly, to represent one's creative and/or intellectually rigorous contribution to hip-hop
and the discourse through personal and academic projects.
Personal projects of fellows may include manuscript projects,
performance pieces, album work, curriculum planning, primary archival research,
and exhibition preparation, among others. (The Grio)
? 's Son has already issued a statement on the mega honor.
"In my rollercoaster of a life I've endured good and bad for sure, and I've truly been blessed to have achieved so much thru art in my short life thus far," he states. "But I am immensely over-the-top excited about the Nasir Jones HIP-HOP Fellowship at Harvard. From Queens, N.Y., to true cultural academia. My hopes are that greed for knowledge, art, self-determination and expression go a long way." (Statement)
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Thats dope
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Im happy for the brother....salute
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Nas lost.
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gud ?
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Good for Nas.
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thats wassup
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Very dope. Salute.
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What yall know about this nas joint??
? aint no where on my "Life is Good" album..
Trust..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSV8WPzWU28
It’s rare I listen to ? who never been in my position
A caterpillar can’t relate to what an eagle envisions
From the mind of a man who went at it with killers
Sit down little man
Let me school you in hood business
Seen a lotta ? blow
Lotta dreams folded
Some wasn’t humble, ate too much, got bloated
Ain’t too much left to buy
Bought it I’m loaded I guess
Lear jets
I ask myself do I need love or success
They say the artist that truly suffers
His stuff is the best
Cause his heart bleed on his sleeve
Pain pistols and sex
Remember spray painting the word Fresh and then staring at it
Older folks angry, pointing, swearing at it
Buildings I sprayed, nowadays drive the Mclaren past it
Same old man from years ago told me life is short
So from infant to geriatric
Trust your own judgment
Live with it and love it -
You know your music is great when big name colleges honor you
Word to Pac and NaS -
Awesome....
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A good look for Nas and Hip Hop...
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This is bigger than money, album sales or that popularity contest called the Grammys.
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He deserves it
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Nice
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Name me one rapper he ain't influenced.
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Very cool news, salute to Nas
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Name me one rapper he ain't influenced.Name me one rapper he ain't influenced.
Chief keef -
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When i saw the thread title, i thought it was the business school honouring him. Then, i got a good lulz out of the thought before clicking to see what this was about. lol
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Harvard knows whats up
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That chain though in the OP ..
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You know your music is great when big name colleges honor you
Word to Pac and NaS
I wonder if a college will honor ja.........nevermind