Dr. Garfield Bright: Wow! Just on my own, we met at Howard, the guys. So, we were college educated brothers in the first place. I always was in love with knowledge and curious about concepts, so I kept matriculating. Even through the Shai years. People didn’t know, I was going back and forth to school. I finally finished my undergrad at Cal State Northridge. We got our record deal right when I had like 3-credits left to finish at Howard. We got a record deal. So, it was between, taking this record deal and going to chase superstardom with a major label. Or do you hold that off… so, I went for mine. When Shai’s star started to dim so to speak, I went back to school. I got my undergrad which was political science history. Then I became a part of something called, “The Hip-Hop Think Team” when I was at Cal State Northridge because, while I was still a student there, the professor knowing that I was in the industry and a platinum guy and understood how it worked. She consulted me to develop a political science class called, “The Politics of Hip-Hop.” I was consulting her and, basically we had a political science class that uses elements in hip-hop to create engagement with students.
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