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will.i.am is going back to school to learn about computer stuff

  • August 14, 2012
  • Sam Hine

will.i.am is heading back to school to learn about coding.

The musical chef talked about his academic inten­tions to the Mirror, 'revealing': "Next year I am going to school to take a computer science course."

“When I am 57 I still want to be relevant in popular culture," he threatened, "and the way to be relevant within popular culture in the future is writing code."

The 'I Got It From My Mama' hitmaker then went on to speak about how these "coder writers are my idols" and really got to grips with the word 'cool', saying: "Songwriters are cool – I can write songs, too – and bloggers are cool but code writers? Those are the coolest in the world."

"Writing songs is dope but writing code is better," he concluded.

Not sure if we agree with you on that one, but there we go.

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