If you are like me you check hip-hop news daily and every once in a while you see another hip-hop icon has stopped by a university for a lecture. Rappers have plenty of insight, whether from industry lessons learned, business perspectives, fashion adventures or just overall being a cool person. Kanye West has done a couple, Lil Jon got crunk in an Oxford classroom, Killer Mike at MIT and even Lil B even stood before a class, so there is no telling who will be coming to a lecture hall podium next.

As I read these artists turned professors making headlines I have to ask two questions: where the hell were these artists when I had to sit through a boring lecture or two? And, who would I want to talk to me? Check out five lectures that I would love to hear in the following pages.