Kanye West made a surprise appearance at Harvard University to speak to the Graduate School of Design Sunday, Nov. 17, as part of the DONDA design lecture series.
He was joined by Virgil Abloh, the creative designer of West’s brand, DONDA. In typical Kanye fashion, he made an unusual request of the students, asking them to meet him in stairwell of the building.
West spoke to the students and gave them words of encouragement. “Just wanted to tell you guys, I really do believe that the world can be saved through design, and everything needs to actually be ‘architected’ [sic],” he said.
West also had a bigger surprise for the students. At the end of his lecture, he provided them and the faculty with tickets to a “Yeezus Tour” performance that night. Naturally, both the students and faculty were ecstatic.
But Yeezy wasn’t the only celebrity in the building, his fiancee Kim Kardashian was also in on the surprise and shared the experience via Instagram.
West may be the college dropout, but he was nonetheless the most popular guy on Harvard’s campus that day.