#DrWEST: Kanye West Blinds Us With His Smile As He Receives Honorary PhD in Chicago

Awww, a rare moment (Yeezy’s smile) captured.  lol details on Kanye West’s honorary PhD from the Art Institute of Chicago, after the click.

Though he didn’t get to finish college before his mom passed, Kanye West finally had a ‘Graduation Day’ of sorts yesterday – he was awarded an Honorary PhD from The Art Institute of Chicago, one of the top art schools in the country.

During his acceptance speech, ‘Ye noted:

When I was giving a lecture at Oxford, I brought up this school because when I went on that mission to create in other spaces, apparel, film, performance, it would have been easier if I could have said that I had a degree at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Other highlights of his speech included encouraging the students not to apologize for their opinions, and that he would use the honor to “make all of our lives easier”.

#DrWest

Interested in how the whole thing came about? Check this –

Lisa Wainwright, dean of faculty and vice president of academic administration, who sits on the committee that decides honorary degrees, told the Chicago Tribune that she had decided to honor West after reading an interview with him in which he said that he would have loved to attend SAIC.

“I read it and thought, ‘Wow, this is a fantastic moment.’ Here is this major figure in the cultural landscape promoting art school, this guy from Chicago saying art school is cool. So we thought, ‘This man deserves an honorary doctorate from us!’”

Kind of dope.  Happy for Kanye.

Also happy for him of course, was his wife, Kim Kardashian. She was in Brazil during the ceremony but she tweeted her praise –

 
“I read it and thought, ‘Wow, this is a fantastic moment.’ Here is this major figure in the cultural landscape promoting art school, this guy from Chicago saying art school is cool. So we thought, ‘This man deserves an honorary doctorate from us!’”

Kind of dope.  Happy for Kanye.

Also happy for him of course, was his wife, Kim Kardashian. She was in Brazil during the ceremony but she tweeted her praise –

Thoughts?

 
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