Kendrick Lamar & Tyler, The Creator Most Popular Rappers Among Students With High Gpas

Kendrick Lamar & Tyler, The Creator Most Popular Rappers Among Students With High Gpas

According to a recent survey, students with good GPAs listen more Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, The Creator music than any other rappers. This suggests that these artists have some intelligent fans.

The Californians were identified in a study by College Rover that included a survey of 1,025 students between the ages of 18 and 23, as well as the use of Spotify’s API (application programming interface) to “analyze 48,077 songs in study playlists to discover which tunes correlate with higher academic achievement.”

With 19% of those surveyed identifying as listeners, the study found that Kendrick was the most well-liked Hip Hop artist among students with GPAs between 3.5 and 4.0. On the list of the most well-known musicians, it put him at position No. 7.

Drake (17%), 21 Savage (16%), J. Cole (15%), Mac Miller (14%) and Lil Uzi Vert (13%) also made the top 20. Tyler came in right behind them at No. 9 with 18%.

The Weeknd came in second with 29%, Taylor Swift took the top spot with 30%. The remaining three artists, Post Malone (19%), SZA (26%) and Harry Styles (24%) completed the top five.

However, there was some bad news for hip hop, as College Rover found that 60% of students with low GPAs (2.5 or worse) listened to rap music while they studied.

Hip Hop was also the tenth most popular genre among top students, trailing only classical, instrumental, jazz, country, and electronic dance music (EDM).

Kendrick Lamar’s popularity among students is hardly a surprise. In 2014, a Georgia Regents University English composition class in Augusta, Georgia, was inspired by his debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city.

“Help students become a better writer, a better reader, a better analyzer, a better person, and a better appreciator of the language of the street: Hip Hop,” stated the course’s mission statement.

Adam Diehl, the course’s instructor, once said to HipHopDX, “I chose to center the class on good kid, m.A.A.d city because I think Kendrick Lamar is the James Joyce of Hip Hop.” In the depth of his storytelling, his familiarity with the canon, and his ongoing attention to Compton, the city of his youth.

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