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Walter E. Massey, the president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and highly esteemed physicist and academic conferred upon rap artist and producer Kanye West an honorary doctorate of fine arts.

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Kanye West receives honorary doctorate from Art Institute of Chicago

By Yvette Caslin
May 19, 2015
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