He ultimately turned down Harvard for another Ivy League school, The University of Pennsylvania, according toMarie Claire.

What did he study?

That’s when Legend met another musician who would go on to become a modern music icon Kanye West.

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“The first guy to call me that was J. Ivy.

He’s a spoken word artist from Chicago.

I met him through Kanye [West].

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We were all in the studio together.