Saturday, December 15, 2012

To Kool For School


Having just finished finals, academics are on the brain. How many hip-hop artists have a college degree? Do they really need one? Is the music industry always going to be based off of people finding you and promoting you, and when this happens does your education matter? All of these rappers in this video went to college. In having a college degree has this shaped their success in the music business in any way?

Before universities and big institutions had very pronounced musical programs, going to school with a talent that could get you places was a dumb idea. In a way it is like pro athletes, when they get picked up by a team they quit on school and go with the pro athlete life. For rappers it is the same. These people have chosen this lifestyle and I am asking if there is a difference between those that get an education and those that don’t when you have an expendable talent like some of these rappers. 



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