According to Bun, professors are particularly worried about students making a push to get their demos heard. "That's the problem that the professors' got, he's concerned about that, he's concerned about some people coming to class [for demos]," Bun said. "If they coming to the course specifically to give me a demo, then that's a wrap on the first day."
But what's education without a little problem solving? Bun revealed that he already has a quick solution for the demo issue. "My plan was to put a box on the desk, a demo box, but the box is gonna stay there and everybody's demo is gonna stay there till the course is over. Nobody gets listened to until the course is over," Bun said. "I'm not saying I'm not going to listen, but I'm not listening [until the course is over] ... and I'll be looking to see who's in class everyday. You may get priority for perfect attendance. So pay attention to me, I'm gonna pay attention to you."
Southern rap godfather Bun B. completed his first class as an instructor at Rice University today (January 11.) The rapper issued the syllabus and required reading for his "Religion and Hip-Hop" course.
"This is a religious course, this is not in the music department," Bun B. explained during an interview with Houston's 97.9. "These are young people who have taken upon themselves at a very young age, dedicated their life to religion, the search of religion and the study of religion, so I don't want to give the people any mis-information."
Bun said that he wasn't nervous at all about the challenge of teaching college students. "I'm totally prepared, I'm from P.A. [Port Arthur, Texas], so not much can shake me up. I used to work with Pimp C., so it's very hard to throw me off," the rapper joked.
"Hip-Hop artists and musicians, their religion comes into play a lot more during the course of making their music than people would think because a lot of music is geared toward the club and partying and all that," Bun explained. "A lot of times people go through a lot of serious life choices throughout the course of their career, may it either be the music, the business, the people around them or the choices that they make. A lot of that comes into conflict with their religion, if their Baptist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, even Buddhists. Whatever your religion may be."
That's what's up. This will be very uplifting to the world! I would love to take the course.
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