Everybody is known to make a lifelong friend or two along the way and it generally happens in high school.
Same goes for a snot-nosed, pubescent fresh-faced rapper. As they struggle to pay attention in geometry and Shakespearean literature classes, their aspirations to becoming a celebrated MC increases.
Big Sean relayed to us that kids should stay in school before persuing their dreams of becoming a rapper but even if they take heed to such advice, the gears already begin to grind.
Don’t believe us? We’ve compiled several rappers who went to high school together. Sometimes it’s a peer pressure thing.
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Snoop & Nate Dogg
Long Beach Polytechnic High School
The late, great Dogg never finished but he came back in time to rep for the 213.
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Wiz Khalifa & Mac Miller
Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh)
As immortalized on Datpiff and LiveMixtapes.com.
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(Half of) A Tribe Called Quest & Jungle Brothers
Murry Bergtraum High School (NYC)
You can teach the greatness of Native Tongues in class. It’s something you learn in the hallway.
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Jay Rock & Terrace Martin
Locke High School (Los Angeles)
Long live the west.
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Slick Rick & Dana Dane
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
And kids in the 00s think they invented swag.
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Chamillionaire & Paul Wall
Jersey Village High School (Texas)
Triple C’s–and we’re not talking about grade cards.
Lupe Fiasco & Bishop G
Thornton Township High School (Harvey, IL)
Extra credit for the FnF.
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Joey Bada$$ & Pro Era
Edward R. Murrow High School (Brooklyn)
The rest is Hip-Hop history…in the making.
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Mobb Deep
High School of Art and Design (NYC)
Only the strong survived or nah?
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Cam’ron & Ma$e
Manhattan Center High School
Before they were rap stars, they were “ballllin!”
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Black Thought & Questlove
Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA)
Hence the chemistry.
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Trina & Jacki-O
Miami Northwestern Senior High School
This says a lot about the girls who attended this school. That is all.
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Ice Cube & Danny Boy O’Connor
William Howard Taft Charter High School (Los Angeles)
N.W.A and House of Pain under the same roof.
De La Soul
Amityville High School
Their journey had only just begun.
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will.i.am & Redfoo
(Los Angeles)
Palisades Charter High School
If you’re an aspiring pop prodigy and you live in the area, you know where to go. Those pictures above equal more than a gazillion records sold.
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Lil Kim & Foxy Brown
Brooklyn College Academy
No worries. Most high school sweethearts don’t go the distance, either.
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3 Melancholy Gypsys
Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles)
The underground trio continues to be prominent in Hip-Hop, most notably Murs with Strange Music.
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T.I. & Unk
Douglass High School (Atlanta)
Tip dropped it out and Unk walked out. Both achieved particular levels of success.
Rick Ross & Flo Rida
Miami Carol City Senior High School
Rozay was leaving when Flo was coming in but the two would later cross paths for big money collaborations.
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ScHoolboy Q & Left Brain
Crenshaw High School
OFWGKTA’s Mike G. was there too.
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Future & YC
Columbia and McNair High Schools (Decatur, GA)
Racks city high.
Outkast
Tri-Cities High School (Atlanta)
“You up to par and ready fo yo lesson/I got an ounce of dank and a couple of drinks, so let’s crank up a session/Like Tri-City high school/Was pulling ’em in a broke down Rabbit/I spit a couple of words and laying ’em down was just a habit.” ~ Big Boi
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Jay Z & AZ
Eli Whitney High School (Brooklyn)
And they’ve never done a song together.
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Jay Z, The Notorious B.I.G., DMX and Busta Rhymes
George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School (Brooklyn)
Fun Fact: Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar both graduated from Centennial High School in Compton but young K Dot was merely an infant when the N.W.A started to make headlines.
