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Harvard University announced on Tuesday, July 16 that it will honor New York based rapper Nas with the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship at its W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.
In conjunction with the Ivy League school’s Hip-Hop Archive, which was established at the Cambridge university in 2002, the fellowship will aid students who excel in the arts ‘‘in connection with hip-hop.’’
While the 39-year-old rapper never received a degree from Harvard, click through to see which big names have walked the historic hallways.
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- Natalie Portman, Class of ’03
- Conan O’Brien, Class of ’85
- Jeremy Lin, Class of ’10
- Matt Damon, dropped out
- Yo-Yo Ma, Class of ’76
- Al Franken, Class of ’73
- Michael Crichton, Class of ’64, ’69 MD
- Dan Jiggetts, Class of ’76
- Andy Borowitz, Class of ’80
- Greg Daniels, Class of ’84
- Michael Schur Class of ’97
- B.J. Novak, Class of ’01
- Carol Potter, Class of ’70
- Darren Aronofsky, Class of ’91
- Paul Wylie, Class of ’91
- Dominic Moore, left for the NHL
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