Kayne West Earns Honorary Doctorate

Kanye West, a pop music icon graduated high School and was enrolled at Chicago’s American Academy of Art but dropped out in 1999 because he claimed that his collegiate studies were deterring him from being able to excel as a rap artist. Dropping out of College was much to his mother Donda West’s, a college professor, disapproval, this disapproval and the story of his schooling was a huge factor of the success of his albums such as College Dropout, a concept album about him dropping out of college. His mother died from complications of the heart in 2007 and as an ode to his beloved mother, and after accomplishing wild amounts of fame West re-enrolled at Chicago’s Academy of Art and graduated with an honorary doctoral degree on May 12th, 2015. Lisa Wainwright, the dean of faculty had nothing but praise for Mr. West, she stated "here is this major figure in the cultural landscape promoting art school".

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