HuffingtonPost: Some of them only went for a few semesters . . . but still, this is something you should remind your 16-year-old kid, who's planning to ditch school for a ballin' rap career filled with money, h*s and lucrative liquor endorsements.

Here's the list, along with the schools they went to:

J. Cole, St. John's University

Lil Wayne, University of Phoenix

David Banner, Southern University

Ludacris, Georgia State University

M.I.A., Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Flavor Flav and Chuck D, Adelphi University

Paul Wall, University of Houston

Talib Kweli, New York University

Rick Ross, South Florida Corrections Officer Academy

Plies, University of Central Florida and Miami University

Rah Digga, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Common, Florida A&M University

Kanye West, Chicago State University

Diddy, Howard University