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Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction” (in-person and streamed)

Name: Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction” (in-person and streamed)
Start: 2022-11-30T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-11-30T20:30:00-05:00
Location: MIT Stata Center, Room 123 (Kirsch Auditorium)

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Video of this past event is now available at cmsw.mit.edu/video-lupe-fiasco-presents-rap-theory-practice-an-introduction.

In-person	Livestream
Registration is now full. Masking encouraged. Attendees, please use the Stata Center’s entrance near Vassar and Main.	web.mit.edu/webcast/cmsw/f22

An exploration into the underlying fundamental functions, structures, and principles of rap.

Lupe Fiasco sitting in a chair in front of a bright wall. He is wearing all-black and a silver necklace. — Lupe Fiasco will lecture at MIT on November 30 at 7pm. For in-person attendees, masking is encouraged. Free and open to the public.

Wasalu Jaco, professionally known as Lupe Fiasco, is a Chicago-born, Grammy award-winning American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and community advocate. Rising to fame in 2006, following the success of his debut album Food & Liquor, Lupe has released eight acclaimed studio albums, his latest being Drill Music In Zion, released in June 2022. His efforts to propagate conscious material garnered recognition as a Henry Crown Fellow, and he is a recipient of an MLK Visiting Professorship at MIT for the 2022/2023 academic year.

MIT Stata Center, Room 123 (Kirsch Auditorium)

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Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction” (in-person and streamed)

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

MIT Stata Center, Room 123 (Kirsch Auditorium)

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