Kanye West has gone from college dropout to Ph.D. 
The rapper was given an honorary doctoral degree at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago on Monday, a moment that would have made his
late mother Dr. Dondra West, an English Department Chair at Chicago
State University, proud.
The now Dr. Kanye West also gave remarks at the ceremony after he
walked across the stage with students and received his diploma and hood.
"I am a pop artist. So my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas," the performer said to the crowd of students.
"'I'm sorry" is something that you can use a lot," he continued. "It
gives you the opportunity to give your opinion, apologize for it, and
give your opinion again. You should not be sorry for your opinions!"
The rapper took the opportunity to mention some of his high achievements
to the crowd, but also addressed the fact that with a degree behind him
some of his prior projects would have been made a lot easier.
"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," he explained.
This was the first time the artist has received a degree from a university, although not the first time he's attended college.
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