Nicki Minaj Course Coming To UC Berkeley In Spring 2023, Rapper Says She Desires To Go to

Nicki Minaj will quickly grow to be the topic of a brand new course at one of the crucial prestigious universities on the planet.

A professor at UC Berkeley introduced on Twitter that she’s instructing a course dubbed Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee & Hip Hop Feminisms starting in spring 2023. The varsity’s verified account retweeted the information as effectively.

The professor mentioned “this class is concerned about considering critically about u and ur productions w/within the context of broader historical-social constructions & hip hop feminisms.” The information has already reached the “Beez within the Lure” rapper, who replied to a tweet in regards to the information saying, “I’d like to cease by.”

There’s no denying Minaj’s affect within the music trade. In reality, simply over a month in the past, the 10-time GRAMMY nominee was honoured with the distinguished Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award on the MTV Video Music Awards.

Following an epic efficiency, thanked her household, followers and friends for supporting her all through her profession.

She started by acknowledging “the entire key individuals who impressed me,” a listing that included Lil Wayne, JAY-Z and Lauryn Hill. Subsequent, have been the “individuals who gave me big alternatives that I’ll always remember,” together with Kanye West, Beyoncé, Britney Spears and Rihanna.

aww, thank u a lot for sharing this @tcmccr. and thank u a lot for responding @NICKIMINAJ. i’m so excited to be instructing AAS 140.2: “Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee & Hip Hop Feminisms” this spr 2023 @ uc berkeley. we’d be hella comfortable & honored for u to cease by! 💜

— peace and love el henson, PhD (she/they) (@dr_peaceandlove) October 7, 2022

After thanking her label and others concerned within the manufacturing of her music, Minaj spoke about individuals she needs have been nonetheless right here.

“I want that Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson have been right here. I want that folks understood what they meant and what they have been going by means of. I want individuals took psychological well being critically, even for the individuals that you just assume have the right lives,” she mentioned. “I want Pop Smoke and Juice WRLD and Nipsey Hussle have been right here.”

The information of a Minaj course is a part of a rising pattern at varied universities throughout the nation. Earlier this yr, Texas State College introduced it’ll discover Harry Types in a course titled Harry Types and the Cult of Celeb: Id, the Web and European Pop Tradition. That class additionally kicks off within the spring 2023 semester.

College students fortunate sufficient to attain a seat within the lecture received’t simply be revisiting lyrics and romantic historical past – they’ll be learning Types’ broader affect on society as a complete by means of his larger-than-life persona. Louie Dean Valencia, affiliate professor of digital historical past at Texas State, promised a wider dialogue on the “cultural and political improvement of the fashionable superstar as associated to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, style, fan tradition, web tradition and consumerism,” in a flier for the class.

San Diego State College additionally jumped on the pattern, providing a graduate-level course on Dangerous Bunny and his affect on the Latinx tradition, whereas New York College introduced a Taylor Swift-focused course at its NYU Tisch Faculty of Arts, per Selection.

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