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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Nas Receives Harvard Hip Hop Fellowship Honor




Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones is an Ivy League man of sorts, yet he's never been to college. One of the most prolific lyricists to come out of Queensbridge, NY dropped out of school early, and now his influence will make sure that young scholars will have a shot at higher education. The Hip Hop Archive and Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute announced the "Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship" giving scholars and artists demonstrating "exceptional" creative and scholastic abilities the opportunity to show that "education is real power."

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