Rapper Gets Warner Music to Pay for Education for Life

The Daily News has a great story on 'hip hop's first female celebrity' and how she got her Ph.D.:

Roxanne Shante, then 19, remembered a clause in her Warner Music recording contract: The company would fund her education for life. She eventually cashed in, earning a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell to the tune of $217,000 - all covered by the label. But getting Warner Music to cough up the dough was a battle.

Read it at Daily News