Yo Gotti Is Attending A Business Course At UCLA

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on December 05, 2023794 Views

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - NOVEMBER 26: Yo Gotti performs onstage during CMG Gangsta Art Tour at State Farm Arena on November 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage)

Gotti is already one of the best executives in rap.

Even though Yo Gotti is already a successful hip-hop mogul he's avoiding complacency and always looking for ways to improve. Now that's coming in the form of a business course at UCLA. According to TMZ, Gotti is taking a weekly in-person course called Corporate Valuation. The course is taught by Professor Lori Santikian at UCLA's highly regarded Anderson School of Management.

He already serves as the head of the CMG label where he and some of the artists he's signed have found quite a bit of success. Numerous CMG artists have broken through into the mainstream since the label was founded more than a decade ago. Their current roster includes GloRilla, Moneybagg Yo, EST Gee, 42 Dugg, Blac Youngsta, Mozzy, Blocboy JB, and more. Consequently, many of those artists and more were present on the label's second compilation album Gangsta Art 2 which dropped back in September. Read the original report about Yo Gotti attending a UCLA course below.

Yo Gotti Upping His Business Acumen

Yo Gotti has gotten somehigh praisee for his role as a rap executive.N.O.R.E.E took the chance to identify some of the people he felt were filling the role best and listed both Rick Ross and Yo Gotti among them. "Rick Ross and yo GOTTI IS THE BEST ARTIST CEOS IN THE GAME!!! I respect them," he wrote in a tweet last year. He isn't the only one praising Gotti either. Additionally, numerous label artists have spoken favorably about his performance as a label boss. Subsequently in many cases, the results even speak for themselves for CMG artists.

Gotti is also in a high-profile relationship with Angela Simmons. The pair are no strangers to sharing their affection for each other publicly. Sometimes that comes in the form of social media posts of the pair together and other times its the rapper dedicating moments at his shows to her. What do you think of Yo Gotti attending a business course at UCLA? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria

Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.