After a New York University scholar sets up a date using the Hook-Up Facebook page, what music may best set the proper mood?

Given the escalating tuition costs, I might suggest the ever classic It’s All About the Benjamins.

The school’s latest course is focused on hip-hop icon Sean Combs (aka Puff Daddy).

First, a video report from Hip-Hop Wired:

The details are provided by Ashley Burns at UPROXX:

If you’ve ever sat through a boring college history class and wondered when knowing anything about some old, dead dude like George Washington was going to matter in your life, because you’d rather talk about people who are still alive and poppin’ bottles at the club, then New York University might just have the class for you. The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music has a new History & Criticism course beginning this Friday, and it focuses on the man who asked us all if we wanted to be ballers, shot-callers, or perhaps brawlers, who would be dipping in the Benz with the spoilers, Mr. Sean Combs.

That’s right, “Sean Combs & Urban Culture” is an actual 2-credit course that students can take to learn about how the man known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy and Diddy and Ding Dong Diddily Ding Dong Diddy has influenced our daily lives. Take it away, course catalog description.

No single personality dominated the landscape of urban mainstream popular culture in the 1990s (and since) more than producer, rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs. By 2013, hip-hop and black culture have become globally mainstream; the immense popularity that hip-hop enjoys today is directly rooted in the profound cultural changes that Combs and his peers instigated. Combs emerged from his humble professional beginnings in the early 1990s as an A&R man at Andre Harrell’s Uptown Records to fashion himself as a profoundly versatile and wildly successful performer, actor, reality-TV star, producer, songwriter, fashion and restaurant entrepreneur and philanthropist. His current net worth estimated at $550 million makes him the richest man in hip-hop and one of the wealthiest artists in the history of popular music. He is a multiple Grammy-winner and won an Oscar in 2012 for his work as a film producer.

Though sometimes not treated with seriousness he deserves…

I am sure the parents of the course’s attendees will be gratified to know their tuition dollars have not been completely wasted!