Heard about the rapper who forced her label to pay for her Cornell Ph.D.? It never happened.

MC Roxanne Shanté, 1980s hip hop star, raps her way to college and a Ph.D. by forcing Warner Music company to honor a clause in her old contract that promised to pay for her college edcuation.

At 19, disillusioned and cheated by her record company, MC Roxanne Shanté wanted out of the business. But then she remembered that her contract had a clause that promised to fund her education for life.