Exclusive: Beatmaker and Educator 9th Wonder On His New Buckshot/Murs Albums and The HBCU Effect
“Busy” is a term that couldn’t begin to describe the current life of legendary beatsmith 9th Wonder. Traveling week-to-week between Duke and Harvard, the Durham, North Carolina native has to balance school and music as if he were a college musician, barring this being on a much larger scale. It wasn’t long ago that 9th Wonder became a Harvard Fellow and now settled in with somewhat of a routine for his new job, the Hip-Hop scholar hopes to bring more to the classroom, teaching the how’s and why’s, rather than then the who’s and what’s.