Education

Three-time Grammy Nominee and music engineering legend, Young Guru announces a 13-city tour where he’ll be sharing his knowledge on the game with college students across the United States. [...]

Amidst promoting her upcoming Girl On Fire album and supporting the President, Alicia Keys has released a new animated app for children called The Journals of Mama Mae and LeeLee. [...]

Grammy-winning singer, heralded MC and popular television personality Cee Lo Green looks to add “protector of the environment” to his long list of titles with the launch of the GreenHouse Foundation, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to help make “green education” more accessible and to “educate, inspire and influence school-aged children in disadvantaged [...]

Since breaking onto the scene in 1998, Ludacris has proven himself to be much more than your average rap star. The Atlanta-based MC has parlayed his musical success into a budding business empire that includes a record label, a brand of cognac and a line of headphones, not to mention his work as a Hollywood [...]

Songwriter, producer and Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am has donated his £500k salary from his coaching stint on The Voice UK towards young peoples charity The Princes Trust. [...]

Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton, Jay-Z‘s close friend and longtime sound engineer, recently visited South Africa to launch the Young Guru SAE Scholarship, a collaborative effort with Cape Town’s School of Audio Engineering. [...]

  Yesterday we reported on Wu-Tang Clan member GZA‘s recent lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and now another rapper will be delivering a collegiate lecture of his own. For reasons no one seems able to understand, Lil’ B the Based God has been booked to deliver a lecture next month at New York [...]

Wu-Tang Clansmen GZA has always been characterized by the intellect he injects into his lyrics, and last week Wednesday he shared some of that intellect with a room full of students (who happen to be pretty bright themselves) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Harvard Crimson reports that the MC participated in a lecture [...]

CBS News takes an in-depth look at Grammy-winning producer 9th Wonder’s “Sampling Soul” course at Duke University. [...]

The death of Amy Winehouse struck a chord with many in the world and has prompted a campaign to make drug education a compulsory part of the national curriculum in schools in the UK. An e-petition calling for this has been added to the government’s website to support the campaign that wants approved drugs education [...]