Soulja Boy says he's the first rapper to become a professor, but there’s a problem with that claim: he’s about a decade and a half too late. The “Kiss Me Thru The Phone” artist released a new trailer for his seemingly Kai Cenat-inspired Rapper University to his social media accounts on Friday (June 13). “I was the first rapper to be a dean and a motherfucking professor. Come on, now. I'm here to teach y'all this game, man,” says the 35-year-old in the above clip. While the “dean” part of the claim requires further examination, it’s clear that Soulja is far from the first emcee to be a professor. A by-no-means-exhaustive list would have to include the following: In 2022, Lupe Fiasco announced that he would join MIT’s MLK Visiting Professor Program for the 2022-23 academic year. The following year he announced a fellowship at Yale University before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in the Fall of 2025.…