Lupe Fiasco will soon be able to add the title of Visiting Professor to his resume after it was announced that he'd be teaching at the prestigious MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for the 2022-23 academic year.
The Chicago lyricist is being brought into MIT as part of the MLK Visiting Professor Program where he will be teaching a class ostensibly on "rap."
“I been holding this for a while,” Lupe tweeted on Friday. “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.”
In a since-deleted tweet, Lupe responded to a Twitter user about the details of his upcoming course:
“Syllabus isn’t built yet but I’m thinking its fruit to be had in looking at neuromorphic computation through the lens of Rap as a lossless data compression model with a dash of energy efficiency via refining Landauer’s principle applied to cytoarchitectonics, [...] And some rapping…”
Lupe was appointed alongside associate professor of theater Eunice Ferreira, and documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah.
Source: twitter.com
