Kanye West To Recieve Honorary Doctorate From Chicago Art Institute

College dropout to certified Doctor at large, your boy ‘Ye is doing you proud, today, as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago will be awarding Kanye West an honorary doctorate.

SAIC will be awarding West his honorary doctorate on May 11, after Kanye mentioned that he wished he had attended SAIC in an interview last week with Clique. Taking a casual mention as a full-blown hint, Dean of SAIC Lisa Wainwright told the Chicago Tribune that West would be receiving an honorary doctorate from the Institute. Wainwright told the Chicago Tribune that Kanye West was a “major figure in the cultural landscape.”

Rapper, producer, husband and dad will soon be known as Doctor West. Knighthood imminent.

SAIC is known for awarding honorary doctorates, as West will join Patti Smith and David Sedaris in their honorary alumni. According to The Verge, Art F City editor and SAIC graduate Croinna Kirsch took umbrage with the announcement, pointing out that an award by SAIC doesn’t particularly make sense: the institute doesn’t have a music faculty. Kirsch reportedly branded the announcement purely as “a gimmick” on the Institute’s part.

Gimmick or no gimmick: SWISH.

Via The Verge.
Lead image by Jason Merritt via Getty.

More Stuff From PEDESTRIAN.TV