MGK Classes It Up For Ivy League Business School Lecture: ‘Harvard Has a New Professor’

MGK has conquered the worlds of hip-hop, emo punk and pop, not to mention building a budding acting resumé. But this week the multi-hyphenate landed a new notch on his experience belt that no one saw coming: he lectured at Harvard Business School.

Colson Baker chronicled the unexpected visit on his Instagram, where he posted a series of pictures of his visit to the venerated Boston university, including a shot of him standing next to the school’s sign wearing his version of professor chic: baggy grey dress pants, a brown bomber jacket, a button down shirt, two different ties (one tied, the other loose around his neck) and, of course, a white baseball hat promoting his Lost Americana album.

“Harvard has a new professor,” he captioned the series, which also featured a snap of him poring over a thick textbook on a train, seemingly in preparation for the visit, standing on steps with a group of students (and not-so-subtly flipping the bird), chilling on the quad and posing in a classroom with more students.

A close-up showed off his official Harvard crimson tie with the school’s motto “Veritas” (truth) and a short video of MGK at a chalkboard writing the words “Water Fire Air Earth” ended with him breaking the chalk and feigning frustration to the laughs of students.

In an Instagram Story, Kelly captioned the snap in front of the biz school sign with “hi class, my name is mr. machine,” followed by a short video of him taking off his college tie drag, writing “class dismissed” underneath as Fisher and AATIG’s “Take It Off” played in the background.

It was quite a trip for the rapper, who in a 2011 interview said he graduated from high school in Cleveland, but had “not a damn” plan to attend college. “But I always plan on being educated… college particularly, do I believe in it?,” said MGK, who was 21 at the time. “For certain people, yes… does a degree make you or break you to be viewed as an intelligent American citizen? Not at all.”

At press time spokespeople for MGK and Harvard Business School had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment on the visit or the details of the lecture.

Last week, Kelly was dressed up for a different reason. He received the Style Icon award at the 12th Fashion Media Awards, where he was accompanied by his teenage daughter Casie and BFF comedian Pete Davidson, with the latter presenting him with the prize. “Pound-for-pound I think he’s maybe the most talented person I’ve ever met,”Davidson said. “He can rap, he can play guitar, he can rock, he can act. He’s a great dad. He always leads by example for me, I look up to him.”

MGK released his seventh studio album, Lost Americana, in August, which featured his No. 62 Billboard Hot 100 single “Cliché.”

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.