Harvard now allows students to graduate with honors for making rap albums. >The album, called "Liminal Minds," has earned the equivalent of an A-minus grade, good enough to guarantee that Shaw will graduate with honors next week.Shaw describes the 10-track album as a dark and moody take on what it means to be black in America. >Rap and hip-hop have drawn growing interest from academia in recent years. Harvard established a fellowship for scholars of hip-hop in 2013, and other schools including the University of Arizona have started to offer minors in hip-hop studies. >Clemson University announced in February that a doctoral student submitted a 34-track rap album as his dissertation, a first for the South Carolina university. >Shaw plans to circulate the album online for free and hopes it opens doors to the music industry. In the meantime, he's headed to Seattle to work as a software engineer at Google.
Can't wait to see what this diversity hire does at Google. Keep in mind that his degree is in English (Ebonics), which somehow qualifies him to be a software engineer at Google.
Ayo hol up missa dean see i gota dis fire mixtape rite hurr now i wuz thinkin i coold collects dem moneys for dems programs if i giv u dis. Ya heard sum finna be one dem smart niggas so i can scratch all dat paper boii
Ayden Kelly
Lol
Adam Nelson
>A-
Wow, what a bigoted and racist teacher to not give this young scholar the A+ that his rap album deserves. This is Harvard god dammit! We won't allow racism here!
I am hereby calling for this teachers dismissal immediately!
Nathaniel Hernandez
that's downright
R A R E A R E R E E
Oliver Harris
Universities have been like this for years - an insider's club where people with (((connections))) go to rack up phony accolades. Maybe it's a good thing the door has finally been opened to blacks.
Luke Bailey
>A- equivalent
Harvard doesn't have grades.
Leo Lee
...
Adam Kelly
Harvard's STEM is still top notch. This is all the other shit, where graduating means dick all.
He'll have his doctorate in ebonics or whatever the fuck, and all that happens is he's 100k in debt.
Eli Ward
That's nothing. Allow me to read some of the masters theses that got approved at the liberal arts college at my university
>"The Legacy of the Fountain Pen in America" >"Thank You for Your Candor: Examining Family Communication Patterns and Gender in the Post-Apocalyptic Film Divergent" >"Queering the Princess Role: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Disney's Frozen"
Eli Edwards
>Implying he didn't have scholarship money fire hosed on him for being non-white.
Hunter Parker
>believes a (((Harvard))) degree is anything more than a ticket into the pedophilic (((ruling class)))
Zachary Reed
That's funny. I wasn't able to pursue an honors thesis when I was in college because my band was in the process of recording and mixing its first album. Didn't know I could've combined the two.
Landon Bennett
Well, his "degree" was in ebonics?
Isn't rap what ebonics is?
Wait, we're talking about the same Harvard, right? The 48% Jew undergrad Harvard? This isn't Histroically Harvard?
Blake Roberts
>"Queering the Princess Role: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Disney's Frozen"
An A for degenerecy.
David Thompson
>What happened to Harvard? Nothing, this is what not-STEM looks like.
Sebastian Morales
Now that's what I call
RARE A R E
David Barnes
Please tell me the last line is fake. Please.
Christian Morris
Which begs the question by Google hired him to be a software engineer.
Juan Bennett
What degree was he studying? I guarantee you it's worthless to begin with.
The more important question is what languages is he coding in? MUHFUGGA++?
Andrew Richardson
nikka must be spittin pure fyre yo
James White
ebonics or kangz
James Rogers
not real
Ryder Jones
Who cares, that degree isn't worth the paper it's written on
Angel Robinson
Ivy schools have turned into complete jokes in the past decade.
Isaiah Gutierrez
how the fuck can something get 'queered'
Henry Lopez
that is actually rare
Xavier Edwards
Phony accolades is a good way to describe modern universities. I know some degrees are still real (STEM), but the rest are meaningless. And groids go for free, and live off stipends. It's not even a test of their tenacity, like it is for white students.
Oh, and I interviewed a niggress from Harvard once. She refused to do a coding challenge despite having her masters in a computing field. She just kept that niggress air of superiority and pooh pooh'd every question like it was beneath her.
Turned her down. I'm sure she's filling a diversity position somewhere now, making more than me.
Jonathan Edwards
>graduates from Harvard >wants to be a rapper Fucking niggers
Robert Sullivan
Can't wait senpai.
It's a degree from Harvard, so that'll land him a job doing something somewhere.
Those are actually fine for thesis papers. The point is to show you can write a paper and argue your position well, not have the best subject ever.
>which somehow qualifies him to be a software engineer at Google. Probably took a bunch of coding classes in minor positions. You'd be surprised how many English majors cross-discipline. English degrees also cost about 1/3rd of STEM degrees and let you pick a lot of non-english electives.
Ryan Cruz
10 MuhGibs = INPUT "WHERE IS MUH GIBS, HONKY?" 20 IF MuhGibs = NoGibs THEN 30 CHIMPOUT 40 ELSE 50 If MuhGibs = ObongoGibs THEN 60 BITCHES AND CRACK Y'ALL 70 GOTO JAIL
Caleb Howard
This
Thomas Cooper
moonman graduated in '86 Killing niggers ever since
Angel Williams
Democratic presidential nominee in 15 years
Carson Sullivan
You have a nice flag
Ayden Gomez
I actually see nothing wrong with this.
If the content of the rap is unique, features an intricate rhyming scheme and delves into somewhat deep subject matter whilst maintaining a sense of academic content, then I honestly see no large issue with this. Especially if it's paired with an actual report which explains the lyrical content in depth, connects it with recurring themes of society, etc.
Illmatic by Nas, based on its content matter, elegant rhythmic scheme, flow and elaborate storytelling, could be a contender for a Bachelors thesis. I'm being 100% serious, too; not even trolling.
If hip hop is really taken to the fundamentals, then it's spoken word poetry and many poets have written a thesis demonstrating their skill. Recital of poetry is also quite popular.
I can get outraged by a lot of shit in academia (e.g., that black female mathematician who is batshit insane), but not this.
Anthony Rodriguez
Completely false, famalam. But whatever makes you feel better.
Blacks are statistically least likely to enter college, to graduate and to earn top employment. Blacks are also statistically less likely to get lucrative scholarships on average.
Look up the stats. STEM black majors are at the lowest since the fucking 80s and there were only like 7 STEM majors back then, m8. Blacks are literally moving backwards in every field. They were better in the 70s, 80s and early/mid 90s.
Leo Sanders
I'm in my mid 30s and without a GED. Is this all that you have to do in order to pass Harvard of all places? I'm not sure if I want to bite the $10k annual tuition bullet in order to try my luck at posing as an SJW to see how much ridiculous shit i can get away with and simultaneously get credit for.
Nathaniel Ortiz
I think you and the rest of you are missing the point.
For him to graduate with Honors means that he has taken approximately ~120 credits without thesis credits and attained the equivalent of an A- GPA. I graduated with a 3.79, and I wrote a thesis (mine was in control theory), but I was going to graduate with Honors regardless of me writing a thesis or not.
A person doesn't just graduate with a 3.0, write a banging thesis and then gets "Hons." attached to their name.
Jackson Lee
"Have you finished your thesis, Obasi?"
"Nah, bitch- check out my mixtape."
Caleb Torres
>What happened to Harvard?
Nathan Hughes
>A person doesn't just graduate with a 3.0, write a banging thesis and then gets "Hons." attached to their name True, but a nigger does.
Jose Flores
>For free >Online
Where can I listen to this master piece?
Sebastian Edwards
THIS FLAG IS MINEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Carson Scott
>In the opening song, “Declaration of Independence,” Shaw sings, with a haunting beat in the background, about the incidents of police violence against black men and finds fault in the whole system.
Composing like Beethoven, to the deaf, or just the hard of hearing — Complacent faces, vacant breasts, bereft of all the feeling. A nation due for inspection, this is the audit, herein Lies the fear in the eyes of our departed dearly — Cold bodies facing .22, man in blue.
Robert Cruz
>In the closing song, “Open Your Eyes,” Shaw strikes a more optimistic tone when he focuses on the progress gained by African-Americans with resilience, courage, and hope in their struggle for rights.
Just watch the thrones, our people are known For making history of the impossible. From rap to White House, we unstoppable. Jumping Jim Crow to playing Oscar roles.
>thrones
WE
Nathaniel Richardson
>Shaw was managing editor of the Harvard Ichthus, a journal of Christian faith produced by undergrads, and a member of the Christian group Harvard Faith and Action.
OBASI SHAW IS A DEGENERA-
NVM
CLOSE THREAD ... Sup Forums is hating on the good guy again
Henry Smith
I can understand if it's for a degree in music, but software engineer?
Hopefully employers know about him and see he couldn't even do anything related to his field. Of course he'll be a diversity hire.
Evan Kelly
If those are for Liberal Arts or gender study degrees, what's the problem, besides them having no work with their degree?
Michael Taylor
Based Caltech
Carter Gray
>English degrees also cost about 1/3rd of STEM degrees and let you pick a lot of non-english electives.
Where do you get that, or is it graduate degrees you're talking about? It's usually $5,000 a quarter for 8 or more credits.
Jacob Torres
Even Mormons are closer to true Christianity than black churches.
Kevin Morgan
His degree is in English. It's a bit of a mystery why Google hired him as a software engineer other than diversity points. Guess all of those "Silicon Valley Diversity Scorecard" reports got to them.
David Cook
Any monkey can code >what managers really believe.
