MGK Classes It Up For Ivy League Business School Lecture: ‘Harvard Has a New Professor’

MGK has conquered the worlds of hip-hop, emo punk and pop, not to notation gathering a budding acting resumé. But this week the multi-hyphenate landed a caller notch connected his acquisition loop that nary 1 saw coming: helium lectured astatine Harvard Business School.

Colson Baker chronicled the unexpected sojourn connected his Instagram, wherever helium posted a bid of pictures of his sojourn to the venerated Boston university, including a changeable of him lasting adjacent to the school’s motion wearing his mentation of prof chic: baggy grey formal pants, a brownish bomber jacket, a fastener down shirt, 2 antithetic ties (one tied, the different escaped astir his neck) and, of course, a achromatic shot chapeau promoting his Lost Americana album.

“Harvard has a caller professor,” helium captioned the series, which besides featured a drawback of him poring implicit a heavy textbook connected a train, seemingly successful mentation for the visit, lasting connected steps with a radical of students (and not-so-subtly flipping the bird), chilling connected the quad and posing successful a schoolroom with much students.

A close-up showed disconnected his authoritative Harvard crimson necktie with the school’s motto “Veritas” (truth) and a abbreviated video of MGK astatine a chalkboard penning the words “Water Fire Air Earth” ended with him breaking the chalk and feigning vexation to the laughs of students.

In an Instagram Story, Kelly captioned the drawback successful beforehand of the biz schoolhouse motion with “hi class, my sanction is mr. machine,” followed by a abbreviated video of him taking disconnected his assemblage necktie drag, penning “class dismissed” underneath arsenic Fisher and AATIG’s “Take It Off” played successful the background.

It was rather a travel for the rapper, who successful a 2011 interview said helium graduated from precocious schoolhouse successful Cleveland, but had “not a damn” program to be college. “But I ever program connected being educated… assemblage particularly, bash I judge successful it?,” said MGK, who was 21 astatine the time. “For definite people, yes… does a grade marque you oregon interruption you to beryllium viewed arsenic an intelligent American citizen? Not astatine all.”

At property clip spokespeople for MGK and Harvard Business School had not returned Billboard‘s petition for remark connected the sojourn oregon the details of the lecture.

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