Lupe Fiasco to teach rap course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2023

For the academic year 2022-2023, Lupe Fiasco will be making Cambridge, Massachusetts his home after being announced for the MIT's MLK Visiting Professors programme.

After being a visiting artist with MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology last year, Lupe Fiasco will begin his role at MIT on 1 July, and is due to teach a course on rap in spring 2023.

On Twitter, Lupe Fiasco wrote, "I been holding this for a while. I’ll put together something more sophisticated later that really captures the nuance and gravity but for now I’ll just say it straight and raw: I’m going to teach Rap at MIT."

I been holding this for a while. I’ll put together something more sophisticated later that really captures the nuance and gravity but for now I’ll just say it straight and raw:

I’m going to teach Rap at @MIT

— “DRILL MUSIC IN ZION” JUNE 24th (@LupeFiasco) May 20, 2022

MIT's MLK Visiting Professor Program has announced their 2022-23 appointments! Three have expertise in the arts & humanities:⁠ associate professor of theater Eunice Ferreira, Grammy-award winning rapper @LupeFiasco, & documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah. Congrats all!⁠ pic.twitter.com/vN2nuZwXHl

— Arts at MIT (@ArtsatMIT) May 20, 2022

The rapper, real name Wasalu Jaco, said in a statement, "MIT stands as the pinnacle of higher learning and execution for so many, including myself. I’m overjoyed to have the opportunity to be in the midst of some of the world’s greatest minds to offer my humble perspective and absorb new practices and principles."