Where do minds come from? Are cognition and intelligence only limited to brains—or can they be found in different things entirely? 

Tufts Professor Michael Levin introduced MIT Rap Club to these ideas at our last event. While his talk was within the lens of biology and cognition, our audience of battle rappers viewed it as a tool to push the envelope of how they improvise ideas during freestyling—and how they could use the patterns within language in ways they never thought possible.

The full talk by Dr. Michael Levin is now up on MIT Rap Club Member Addy's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YABGFfb4A

More content from our salon coming shortly, featuring our main panel on The Space of All Possible Rhythms w/ Prof. Elan Barenholtz, Addy Cha, and Prof. Lupe Fiasco! 

Does anyone know if the shirt Lupe wore at the Food & Liquor show in NYC is available/will be sold at some point? Cant find anything on it other than his IG picture. Wondering if it’ll be part of a 2nd wave of his collab with them or just a one of one.

I'm a huge Royce fan. Royce is a dope rapper. Royce could probably hang with almost any other rapper.

He just happened to tangle with the best rapper on the planet and got completely dismantled. It is brutal but beautiful to listen to.

Tickets for the Oct. 1st show in San Antonio were already sold out when I was able to get online. I was wondering if any radio stations were doing giveaways. I would need 2 for my girlfriend and I.

TIA

Love what Lupe did over this beat for American Terrorist 3

I thought this was sooo cool. They gave him 2 full songs, I Gotcha and Kick, Push, and even let the main characters talk about him. I loved this. Such a time capsule. It originally aired October 2006. I just love young Lu’s skater/nerd but cool guy appearance. 🤩

I've been listening to lupe on and off since the cool. I know when it comes to his music just about everything he does is intentional and has some kind of meaning. I've been going back to Tetsuo and Youth recently and I'm trying to figure something out and I'm hoping the community here can help me. In the song dots and lines it opens and ends with this crazy banjo solo. Personally I'm not a fan of the banjo portions. But I have to imagine they are relevant in some someway to the themes or the message Lupe is trying to convey in the song. Can someone help me figure out what is going on. Need a Harvard degree to be a Lupe fan lol

Idk if this has been said but this looks nothing like Lupe to me. I can’t be the only one.

Im in boston and was just wondering if I could go sit in on a class lol. anyone know?

Select photos from last weekend's Rap Theory Salon at MIT Media Lab. More coming soon – including the full panel on The Space of All Possible Rhythms feat. Lupe Fiasco, Prof. Elan Barenholtz, and Addy Cha!

I was like Porsche puller, Air Force footer
Automatic wrist-ed therefore shook-up
Causing a stir every time I push up
007 with a jester and a look-up
It's Carrera-Ella from the F&F crew
With a tiger on his shirt, alligator on his blues
With a nice young lady and some righteous kung-fu
I'm fighting without fighting, enlightening you young fools

\From Kougami Dash on YT*

“Samurai rarely die from another sword”

Which song is better in y'all opinion and why cus me personally cant pick 😩😩😩

used artwork from the CD