For the second consecutive year, Harvard University hosted a summer boot camp for standout college-aged students from around the country who want to work in the music industry — particularly hip hop. A nonprofit called No Label brought them to Boston after a long-odds application process that permitted about 25 students in each time from a pool of 3,000, according…
For the second consecutive year, Harvard University hosted a summer boot camp for standout college-aged students from around the country who want to work in the music industry — particularly hip hop.
A nonprofit called No Label brought them to Boston after a long-odds application process that permitted about 25 students in each time from a pool of 3,000, according to No Label Academy. In the same month, the country acknowledged the 50th anniversary of hip hop, the genre's next generation of leaders were preparing in a classroom at Harvard to accept the artistic baton.
"We want the music industry, creative industries, to be more equitable across gender, race, socioeconomic status," said Marcelo Hunta-Davis, co-founder of No Label."Create direct access for people who are from disadvantaged backgrounds, who don't have that access."Rapper IDK, a hip hop artist in his 30s, leads the education curriculum. He brings in his friends and colleagues from the music and fashion industries to lecture.
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