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Nasir Jones aka Nas & Harvard University have established the Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship Program. The Hip Hop Archive & The W.E.B. Dubois Foundation announced the new program.
The fellowship is to help those who demonstrate “exceptional capacity for productive scholarship and exceptional creative ability in the arts” as it pertains to hip hop. Nas released this statement about the program:
In my roller coaster of a life I’ve endured good and bad for sure, and I’ve truly been blessed to have achieved so much through 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.
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