{"id":485758,"date":"2019-05-12T11:37:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=834476"},"modified":"2019-05-12T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:37:35","slug":"justin-timberlake-missy-elliott-receive-honorary-doctorate-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/justin-timberlake-missy-elliott-receive-honorary-doctorate-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliott Receive Honorary Doctorate Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-1143101940.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/justin-timberlake\/\" id=\"auto-tag_justin-timberlake\" data-tag=\"justin-timberlake\">Justin Timberlake<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/missy-elliott\/\" id=\"auto-tag_missy-elliott\" data-tag=\"missy-elliott\">Missy Elliott<\/a> were honored with doctorate degrees from the Berklee College of Music on Saturday. Composer and musical director Alex Lacamoire also received an honorary degree for his work in <em>Hamilton<\/em>, <em>In The Heights<\/em> and <em>Dear Evan Hansen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s honorary doctorate recipients are being recognized for their achievements and influences in music, and for their enduring global impact,\u201d the school said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berklee.edu\/news\/berklee-now\/justin-timberlake-missy-elliott-and-alex-lacamoire-receive-honorary-doctorates?s4noCV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">statement<\/a>. The superstars were honored for their \u201cinfluences in music, and for their enduring global impact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/11\/entertainment\/berklee-college-missy-elliot-justin-timberlake-alex-lacamoire-trnd\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CNN reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following the ceremony, both Elliott and Timberlake posted the landmark moment on Instagram. \u201cCREATE YOUR OWN LANE,\u201d Elliott captioned her post, alongside a video of her in a cap and gown with her framed diploma. \u201cSincerely Dr. Missy Elliot.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BxVPNleASIg\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-6.53125\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u201cCry Me A River\u201d singer shared some advice with his Instagram followers writing in his post, \u201cNo Dream is too big!!! Keep chasing!!! Trust me\u2026 I\u2019m a DOCTOR.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BxVvL1NBWpG\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-4.2128712871287\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both artists delivered speeches to the 2019 graduating class.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQShxaLnc0E?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be ups and downs \u2014 prepare for that,\u201d Elliott said. \u201cAs long as you are breathing, it is never too late. Don\u2019t forget that. You have come too far to quit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Timberlake also shared some wisdom with the graduating class. \u201cYou\u2019re defined by what you define failure as. It\u2019s not a thing if it leads you to your success. It\u2019s all part of the journey,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope that in the years to come, two things will happen: One, I will represent you in the way that you most hope for. And two, I look around and see this graduating class. Meet me at the studio. I want to see y\u2019all!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fOfcARM6psw?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/justin-timberlake-missy-elliott-honorary-doctorate-degrees-berklee-college-of-music-834476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Timberlake and Missy Elliott were honored with doctorate degrees from the Berklee College of Music on Saturday. Composer and musical director Alex Lacamoire also received an honorary degree for his work in Hamilton, In The Heights and Dear Evan Hansen. \u201cThis year\u2019s honorary doctorate recipients are being recognized for their achievements and influences in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 03:08:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}