{"id":264981,"date":"2021-06-02T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/9th-wonder-aiming-to-separate-taste-from-fact-teaching-at-jay-zs-roc-nation-school\/"},"modified":"2021-06-02T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:48:29","slug":"9th-wonder-aiming-to-separate-taste-from-fact-teaching-at-jay-zs-roc-nation-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9th-wonder-aiming-to-separate-taste-from-fact-teaching-at-jay-zs-roc-nation-school\/","title":{"rendered":"#9TH WONDER Aiming To Separate Taste From Fact Teaching At JAY-Z&#039;s ROC NATION SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#9TH WONDER Aiming To Separate Taste From Fact Teaching At JAY-Z&#039;s ROC NATION SCHOOL<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2021\/06\/5B84FECE-BFC2-4CE5-AFFA-D30DEC0506C9-1170x658.jpeg\" alt=\"9TH WONDER Aiming To Separate Taste From Fact Teaching At JAY-Z's ROC NATION SCHOOL\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>Instagram<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legendary producer 9th Wonder crossed over into the world of education in the mid-\u201900s and shared his expansive knowledge on Hip Hop with students at North Carolina Central University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, Duke University and more. With over 15 years of academia under his belt, 9th is prepared for the next big step in his teaching career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Roc Nation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment is an upcoming one-of-a-kind educational program at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, aiming to push students in a way that\u2019s different from the usual course of study at a place of higher education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a program like this, JAY-Z and his team had to assemble a staff that would truly embody the mission they have in mind for this dive into the world of education. They did just that on May 24 when Roc Nation and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.liu.edu\/\">Long Island University<\/a> announced 9th Wonder as the first professor and artist in residence for the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COvKM27lG64\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COvKM27lG64\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\">A post shared by Roc Nation (@rocnation)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9th Wonder put a lot of time and effort into his career as a professor and producer, so it\u2019s no question whether he\u2019s a perfect fit to lead the way for the Roc Nation school. The producer\u2019s unique style of teaching and his vast knowledge will challenge a whole new set of minds, and he\u2019s excited to get the ball rolling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To engage his students, 9th incorporates a style that promotes independent thinking. Students should be able to think outside the box and formulate their opinions without the allure of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> influencing them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI always try to challenge my students to just think on a very critical level,\u201d 9th Wonder told <em>HipHopDX<\/em>. \u201cSometimes, in our very push-button, hands-on, everything\u2019s in front of you world, critical thinking is not as strong as it used to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hip Hop is a multi-layered subject with almost five decades worth of history to dissect. That\u2019s a lot to fit in a 15-week semester. But 9th aims to explore different aspects of the genre that helps students understand the foundation that the culture was built on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJust to think of, and it\u2019s hard to do that when people don\u2019t think, but not to say that my students won\u2019t think this way,\u201d 9th Wonder said. \u201cBut people don\u2019t look at hip hop as a conversation that needs to be studied from a genius level. Or the need for it to be studied from a critical thinking level, and it is.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued, \u201cWe also have to be very careful when we have these conversations with the next generation. Because we do it from a very, this is what it is and you have to accept what it is. And we can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPUBXPHl4TP\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPUBXPHl4TP\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\">A post shared by Roc Nation (@rocnation)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the two courses 9th Wonder is teaching at the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment, students will get the opportunity to learn about Hip Hop history and the making of an album. These two classes are a part of the bigger picture that 9th Wonder, JAY-Z, Roc Nation and Long Island University are painting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HipHopDX spoke more with 9th Wonder about his new teaching position, the importance of critical thinking, the responsibility of being the first professor at the Roc Nation school, how his 15 years of teaching prepared him for this moment and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>HipHopDX: <\/b>What was the first thing that went through your mind when this opportunity was presented to you?<\/p>\n<p><b>9th Wonder: <\/b>It\u2019s funny because I am a part of music, I\u2019m a part of sports, and entertainment myself. Right? I\u2019ve been in music for so many years, and I\u2019m very involved in youth basketball, and I teach at Duke, which is an incredible basketball program. And for a long time, I\u2019ve been trying to find, even to find myself, how can I merge the three? I do it with my daughter\u2019s youth basketball team, The Carolina Dream.<\/p>\n<p>We talk about sports, of course, but I also try to take some stuff I learned, discipline from the music industry, and try to give it to them. So, all of that ran through my mind when I even saw the title, right? The Roc Nation School of Music, Sports, and Entertainment. So, all three of those are a part of me, so I think it\u2019s an amazing fit, for me, I think.<\/p>\n<p><b>HipHopDX: <\/b>How are you planning on setting the bar for the incoming professors that are going to join and help educate these students?<\/p>\n<p><b>9th Wonder: <\/b>Academia is a rigorous field, right? I had to learn, I\u2019ve been teaching for 15 years. So I had to learn that myself when I first got into academia on the instructional side. I went to college but just on the instructional side or the professorship side, I had to learn how <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ed that was. I couldn\u2019t look at myself as a musician or a hip-hopper that\u2019s trying to teach. I had to start looking at myself as a professor.<\/p>\n<p>So for me, I wouldn\u2019t necessarily say I\u2019m trying to set a bar but I will inform the next musicians that come in and say, \u201cHey, this is a field unlike ours.\u201d With the preparation, with the lecture, with the syllabus, and dealing with students. We used to dealing with people by standing on a stage, and we looking at them in a crowd, or our managers handling people who want to talk to us, or whatever it is. Those people admire our work. It\u2019s different when you\u2019re standing in front of a classroom and people are expecting you to give them the right information.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPBFY7olPGo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPBFY7olPGo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\">A post shared by Roc Nation (@rocnation)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>HipHopDX: <\/b>How are you trying to challenge the minds of these students that will be attending the Rock Nation School of Music, Sports, and Entertainment?<\/p>\n<p><b>9th Wonder: <\/b>I will challenge them to try to find the correct information and to learn how to debate their opinion. We live in a world where everybody has an opinion now, nobody is wrong, nobody\u2019s this perspective. And I understand that. And we also live in a world where we live on social media platforms sometimes, where that can be great information and there\u2019s also misinformation. And we know that misinformation <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>s faster than the right information.<\/p>\n<p>So, for me and my students, I try to challenge them to find the correct information. If you going to stand on an opinion, if you going to stand up and say, \u201cI think this.\u201d, well tell me why. Why do you think this? Can you critically think your way through a conversation instead of just saying, \u201cThis is what I think and I don\u2019t care what anybody says.\u201d Well, that\u2019s cool, but in the world of academia, you must be able to express your opinion and back it up with some type of factual information.<\/p>\n<p><b>HipHopDX: <\/b>Where did you learn to look at the world that way?<\/p>\n<p><b>9th Wonder: <\/b>I grew up in that type of environment. Ever since, I would say, early parts of elementary school to, well a lot of parts of elementary school, 4th, 5th grade all the way up until, in college. I was always placed in an environment where you had to think critically. whether it be in a classroom or whether it be amongst my friends. 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That\u2019s a matter of taste. This is a matter of being able to talk your way through and I\u2019m always surrounded by that. We call <em>Illmatic<\/em> one of the greatest albums of all time in our culture. But why do we do that? There is critical data that shows it, other than sales. Why do we call it genius? So we need to learn how to just express that, critically think through that, and I was always raised in those types of environments.<\/p>\n<p><b>HipHopDX: <\/b>You\u2019ll be teaching courses in Hip Hop History and The Making of an Album. Why are those the focuses of your courses when you could be talking about anything revolving around music and Hip Hop?<\/p>\n<p><b>9th Wonder: <\/b>They already had a set of, quote-unquote, courses. It\u2019s easier to take those particular courses and morph them into something else that\u2019s kind of similar. History\u2019s at every school in the country. In the world, almost. It\u2019s easy to take a musicology course and turn it into a Hip Hop history course.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, Hip Hop is almost 50 years old. It\u2019s time to start having those conversations, anyway. The Making of an Album is the same thing. You can take the course and morph it into something else. To change it to something else so that\u2019s how I was able to, or going to be able to, teach those particular courses.<\/p>\n<p><b>HipHopDX: <\/b>One of the best things about this school is the chance to learn about Hip Hop in the city that birthed it. What does that mean for you?<\/p>\n<p><b>9th Wonder: <\/b>It\u2019s huge, man. It changes the idea of the word field trip. You know what I mean? I can go and, who knows, man? Just by me saying that out loud, not only we can go to the place where I\u2019m talking about, we can go to Union Square. We can go to, as Nice and Smooth says, 125 and St. Nick. We can go to Queensbridge. We can go to the Cross Bronx Expressway where this whole thing starts. We can go to Bronx River Houses. We can go to Marcy Projects.<\/p>\n<p>We can go to these places and we can walk and talk, and I can lecture while we\u2019re looking at the actual place and it\u2019s unbelievable. I can also call the producer or rapper I\u2019m speaking about and say, \u201cHey, what you doing today, man? Want to come to class and talk to my students?\u201d You know what I mean?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>HipHopDX: <\/b>Do you think more of these institutions or programs like the Roc Nation School and LeBron James\u2019 I Promise Academy are needed for us?<\/p>\n<p><b>9th Wonder: <\/b>I think so. I think the wonderful thing about the I Promise School and schools like that, we need to find a way to do our best. We can still teach the same ideals of fundamentals, right? We need to find a way to engage these students because the way I learned, with a chalkboard and chalk, is not the way a kid now is going to learn. They\u2019re inundated with so many different distractions like the phone and TV.<\/p>\n<p>Educators around the globe, especially in the United States, we need to find a way to engage the student. The mind that you\u2019re talking to is not the same mind you were talking to 30 years ago. Or 20 years ago. Or even 10. You have to understand that now, students need to think in totally different ways, see things a totally different way, receive information a totally different way. 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