According to Rolling Stone, Harvard University's Hip-Hop Archives and W.E.B. Du Bois Institute have created the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship, which will "fund scholars and artists who show productive scholarship and creative potential in the arts in connection with hip-hop."

"I am immensely over-the-top excited about the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship at Harvard. From Queens, NY to true cultural academia," Nas said in response to the fellowship.