This fall, you can get some class credit for your obsession with Kendrick Lamar. Well, only if you are enrolled at Temple University in Philly, where noted professor Timothy Welbeck will teach an inaugural class on the “Not Like Us” rapper.
Welbeck is a professor in Temple’s Department of Africology and African American Studies and the Director for the Center for Anti-Racism, who has taught at the school for 14 years. The course will be called Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of M.A.A.D City, referencing a track from Lamar’s 2012 sophomore release Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.
The professor told NBC10 in Philadelphia that he’s been using Lamar’s music in his classes for at least the last decade and that the department was receptive to the idea of a class on the Los Angeles-based rap star. He won’t be the first musician the university has offered a class on, as Jay-Z, his wife Beyoncé, and Tupac have all been studied there as well…