The hip-hop icon Nas becomes the first rapper to receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, Harvard’s highest honor in the field of African and African American Studies field and is awarded to those who have made "contributions to African American culture and the life of the mind." He joined his fellow honorees including Muhammad Ali, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.and Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.
Nas posed with professors and students, and took the stage to share some empowering words. “These are the things the kids need to see. The real things,” he said. “This
is a light I want on me. I hope that I can be a great role model for those kids…you can be more than the typical image of rap.”
He later tweeted, “Historic night for the rap game. At the Hutchins Center Honors for the W.E. B. Du Bois Medal ceremony. This is a first for the Rap Game to receive this award but, definitely not the last. Thank you. #HarvardHistory.”
At one point, Holder joked, “I took some pictures with Nas before I came up here. My level of coolness must have gone up 1,000 percent.”
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