Lupe Fiasco Will Teach Rap at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute

Lupe Fiasco is headed to Johns Hopkins as a professor. On Wednesday, the rapper announced that he’ll be a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute this year.

The rap star will teach a course for their four-year hip-hop program that starts in 2025.

“Let’s hit the ground running in 2025… Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the faculty at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in Fall 2025 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor,” Fiasco wrote, thanking the degree program leader, musician Wendel Patrick.

In his Instagram post, Fiasco commended the Peabody Institute for its history in “rigorous training” and for making “some of the world’s greatest musicians.

“I’m honored to contribute to this legacy doing what I love most, Rap,” he wrote, clarifying that he’ll continue to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Yale fellowship to “advance Rap studies and practice into the upper echelons of higher education at large.”

According to its website, the program will follow a one-on-one studio model to develop student skills with private instructors. Students can get a Bachelor of Music in Hip-Hop and develop both musical traits and “business and career skills you’ll need in the real world.” The program also teased that rap majors would be able to work with a “chart-topping emcee,” in reference to Fiasco. Applications for the program are due Jan. 3.

Fiasco announced that he was going to be a Saybrook Fellow at Yale. “Shout to Tom Near for nominating me to a place where against all odds two Chicagoans found a home in the Ivy League,” Fiasco wrote on X at the time. He also announced in 2022 that he would be an MLK Visiting Professor at MIT.

From Rolling Stone US.