{"id":187227,"date":"2025-09-17T09:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/mgk-classes-it-up-for-ivy-league-business-school-lecture-harvard-has-a-new-professor-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:13:29","slug":"mgk-classes-it-up-for-ivy-league-business-school-lecture-harvard-has-a-new-professor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/mgk-classes-it-up-for-ivy-league-business-school-lecture-harvard-has-a-new-professor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MGK Classes It Up For Ivy League Business School Lecture: \u2018Harvard Has a New Professor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/machine-gun-kelly\/\">MGK <\/a>has conquered the worlds of hip-hop, emo punk and pop, not to mention building a budding acting resum\u00e9. 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tColson Baker chronicled the unexpected visit on his Instagram, where he <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOrCcsFifpN\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">posted a series of pictures<\/a> of his visit to the venerated Boston university, including a shot of him standing next to the school\u2019s 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 <em>Lost Americana<\/em> album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHarvard has a new professor,\u201d 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA close-up showed off his official Harvard crimson tie with the school\u2019s motto \u201cVeritas\u201d (truth) and a short video of MGK at a chalkboard writing the words \u201cWater Fire Air Earth\u201d ended with him breaking the chalk and feigning frustration to the laughs of students. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn an <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/machinegunkelly\/3723178890526626541\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram St<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/machinegunkelly\/3723178890526626541\/\">o<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/machinegunkelly\/3723178890526626541\/\" target=\"_blank\">ry<\/a>, Kelly captioned the snap in front of the biz school sign with \u201chi class, my name is mr. machine,\u201d followed by a short video of him taking off his college tie drag, writing \u201cclass dismissed\u201d underneath as Fisher and AATIG\u2019s \u201cTake It Off\u201d played in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt was quite a trip for the rapper, who in a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vSsA4wPUO4k\">2011 interview<\/a> said he graduated from high school in Cleveland, but had \u201cnot a damn\u201d plan to attend college. \u201cBut I always plan on being educated\u2026 college particularly, do I believe in it?,\u201d said MGK, who was 21 at the time. \u201cFor certain people, yes\u2026 does a degree make you or break you to be viewed as an intelligent American citizen? Not at all.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAt press time spokespeople for MGK and Harvard Business School had not returned <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s request for comment on the visit or the details of the lecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLast week, Kelly was dressed up for a different reason. He received the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOjsHXsCQUL\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTBiZ25nczU4eHY1\">Style Icon award<\/a> 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. \u201cPound-for-pound I think he\u2019s maybe the most talented person I\u2019ve ever met,\u201dDavidson said. \u201cHe can rap, he can play guitar, he can rock, he can act. He\u2019s a great dad. He always leads by example for me, I look up to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMGK released his seventh studio album, <em>Lost Americana<\/em>, in August, which featured his No. 62 Billboard Hot 100 single \u201cClich\u00e9.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubpass.co\/billboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2HpFicp.png\" alt=\"Billboard VIP Pass\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/mgk-harvard-business-school-lecture-new-professor-1236068225\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MGK has conquered the worlds of hip-hop, emo punk and pop, not to mention building a budding acting resum\u00e9. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}