(AllHipHop News) He is now Dr. Kanye West. The Chicago artist received an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago yesterday. West also delivered a speech at the ceremony.

“This honor is going to make your lives easier. Two reasons: you don’t have to defend me as much, and I’m going to make all of our lives easier,” West told the audience at SAIC. “It’s these Floyd Mayweather belts that are needed to prove what I’ve been saying my entire life.”