“Wasalu Jaco – the Grammy Award-winning rapper, entrepreneur, and community advocate better known as Lupe Fiasco – is joining MIT this coming academic year as part of MIT’s MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program.
Jaco, whose new album Drill Music in Zion will drop on June 24, is going to make Cambridge his home base as he engages with the campus community through class visits and by teaching a special subjects course on rap in spring 2023. His appointment is hosted by Comparative Media Studies/Writing professor Nick Montfort and Literature professor Mary Fuller.”