Inside Rapper IDK's New Harvard Course on the Music Business

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Marcelo HD, far left, IDK, second from left, and Miles Weddle, far right, with friends after a conversation on Criminal Justice Reform at Harvard in February 2020.

learned to rap while in prison on a robbery charge he picked up as a teenager."I’m a middle-class person who went to prison partially because I went to a bad school in a bad area," he says."Then I go back four times on the same exact charge ... because I didn’t take home detention or violated this or that. Knowledge and education are important for empowerment, especially in the Black community.

Mills, now 28, went on to establish a name for himself as IDK , as an independent artist and entrepreneur, before his own Clue Records signed a joint venture with Warner Records in 2019 to release his debut album,IDK to Serve as Music Supervisor & Composer For Kevin Durant's Basketball Doc: Exclusive

In partnership with the Boston-based nonprofit No Label, the rapper-producer plans to educate and empower the next generation of artists and executives who are Black, Indigenous or members of other historically marginalized groups with lessons on finance, innovation, mental health and other topics.

"What we’re trying to do is to not only create a comprehensive course, but a course that students and the industry will look to as a model to make knowledge more accessible," saysin 2018 to engage students in new narratives and broaden their perspectives. The nonprofit’s Uncut speaker series, for instance, hosts experts, academics and artists like

 

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