Lupe Fiasco Will Be Teaching Rap At John Hopkins University

Lupe Fiasco will soon be a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

On Wednesday, the Chicago rapper announced the news on Instagram.

“Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the faculty at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in fall 2025 as a distinguished visiting professor, teaching rap as part of the groundbreaking new four-year hip-hop degree program,” Lupe wrote, adding that the program is led by Wendel Patrick, who was previously a Nasir Jones hip-hop fellow at the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard.

“The Peabody Institute is one of the oldest music conservatories in America,” he continued. “World renowned for its rigorous training and for producing some of the world’s greatest musicians, and I’m honored to contribute to this legacy doing what I love most, rap.”

The Food & Liquor MC also noted that he’ll still be teaching at MIT, and is pursuing a fellowship at Yale.

Back in 2022, Lupe spoke with Okayplayer ahead of beginning his course at MIT in 2023, and what he hoped to instill in his students.

“There’s a lot of things that I have personal experience on, things that I think about in rap. They’re not gonna have this conversation or lesson on the Okayplayer boards. It’s talking about, like, ‘What is the relationship between rap and biology?’ We’re not talking about Biggie Smalls, we’re not just talking about the entertainment side or the culture side of it, it’s like, ‘How is rap informed by astrophysics?’” he said at the time.

“We’ve done rapping, we’ve done freestyles, we’ve done shows, we did a club walkthrough, we made some money, we bought a Rolex, we did all of that stuff, but there’s still lingering questions and paths that I want to explore with the student body as well as with the faculty,” he added.

Check out his announcement for yourself below: