Edumacation?

So late last night I was on a conference call with my manager (@diamondent) and heard a guy say something that kinda got to me. He said that you can't be a college student and a rapper at the same time. That school would take you away from music and that eventually you'll either fail out or just stop rapping completely. Now, I for one don't agree with this. I have two college degrees and I'm still doing this. I still found time to hit the studio, pass out fliers, research marketing techniques, rehearse, and stay on my grind. At the end of the day, if you want something bad enough, you don't have any excuses. Matter of fact, you don't even think that far, you just do. I'm here to tell you guys that I'm a living example that you can get your degree(s) and still rap. Also there are major artists out there that went to college and graduated with degrees such as; Common (Baton Rouge), DJ Premier (Prairie View A&M), Talib Kweli (City University of NY), Paul Wall (University of Houston), Mos Def (City University of NY), and Killer Mike (Southern). There are also artists that attended college but didn't finish, however, they did attend (which may be the reason they even became great artists); Lil Wayne (University of Houston) Kanye West (Chicago State University) Cam'Ron (Navarro) and Chamillionaire (University of Houston). Having an education gives you an edge over the competition anyway especially if you are trying to build your own label or learn how to read jargon (look that one up). So hit the books and know that it'll help you in the long-run

2009 Top Rapper #5

Eminem, M.I.C., and now Slaughterhouse. Doesn't really matter where you put Royce Da 5'9" he's pretty much gonna kill everybody lyrically. Don't forget this guy was the one who originally featured on "Renegade" with Eminem before the beefing started happening. This guy makes all rappers want to step their game up because, like Wayne, he lives in the studio and drops mixtape after mixtape after mixtape. He established himself after dropping his infamous Bar Exam mixtape with DJ Premier. After that he got with the underground's 4 deadliest emcees and formed a group that one really wants to touch. (except wu tang, but that's over now) Royce is best to be heard when you wanna go hard in the studio, you want to hear punchline after punchline and hear something witty. Next time you want to hit the studio up, make sure to listen to about five of his tracks and watch how much the engineer spazzes out.