Nasty Nas honored by Harvard

Hip-hop is slowly but surely invading the collegiate classroom. Harvard who is no stranger to having hip-hop in their classroom (ex. GZA speaking at Harvard) has awarded a certain son of god with a program of his own.

Harvard University has honored Nas with the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship . The Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship is aimed to fund and enrich artists/students who have ties to hip-hop.

Check below to see what Nas had to say about the program;

“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. But I am immensely over-the-top excited about the Nasir Jones HIP-HOP Fellowship at Harvard. From Queens, NY to true cultural academia. My hopes are that greed for knowledge, art, self-determination and expression go a long way. It is a true honor to have my name attached to so much hard work, alongside great names like Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and W.E.B. Du Bois and to such a prestigious and historical institution, and all in the name of the music I grew to be a part of.”

– John McAuliffe (@John_Mac310)