Professor Lyrical

Professor Lyrical^[1] is a Hip hop artist from Lowell, Massachusetts, who was also a university professor in Boston. He is now an associate professor at the University of the District of Columbia and lives in the DC area. In September 2017 he won the "Pitch and Flow" rap battle at the Kennedy Center, where dope rappers were paired with socially conscious entrepreneurs who were pitching their company ideas through the rap performances. He is also known as a clean and conscious rapper, however several of his earlier songs were laced with profanity and touched on violent issues he is now known to speak out against. His 2005 album iNFiNiTi won for album of the year in the M.I.C. Hip Hop awards in Boston.^[2]

Before he was a full-time Lecturer at Northeastern University, he was an adjunct professor at several other colleges in Massachusetts, primarily in the areas of Math and entertainment (including a Hip Hop course at Lasell College, entertainment courses at Bay State College, math courses at New England Arts Institute and Lesley University, and a discrete math course at Wentworth Institute of Technology.). His (8/2013) album, Put Em All To Shame is an album that also comes with a book, and is known as "The World's First Albook." The book is similarly entitled Put Em All To Shame (The Curriculum)].

He received a BS and an MS (Mathematics) from UMass-Lowell and a doctoral degree from Northeastern University. In the early and mid 1990s he competed in several invitation-only freestyle battles, such as the Battle for World Supremacy in NYC and the Universal Zulu Nation East Coast Finals; he went on to win many more in the years to follow. He is part of the Mass Industry Committee, which also created 617Live TV. Lyrical has filled in for fellow Boston rapper Akrobatik on JAM'N 94.5 to perform the daily "SPORTS RAP UP" (part of the highly rated Morning Show) on occasion when Akrobatik has been unavailable. He has appeared on many different radio segments, television shows, news programs and in movies.^[3]

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