Michaelangelo Maurice “Valentino” Hayes is a trailblazer in a cleverly eclectic fusion of modern Hip Hop Culture, education, and social-entrepreneurship. He graduated from the historic Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA USA) in 2017 with the history Sesquicentennial (150th) Class, founding an award-winning Hip Hop movement within the Atlanta University Center and a 200+ personally funded mentorship organization for young African-American men with notable alumni. Michaelangelo has co-founded a locally acclaimed and accoladed record label in Atlanta, GA with Michael Watson, served as the Mainstream Music Director for Baltimore City’s premier Underground writing publication The Demo Tape LLC, and is currently the first person in history (as of 2019) to receive an official academic certification in Hip Hop at his post-graduate program at Bowie State University, where he has received a 4.0 GPA as a 2-year student.
Michaelangelo is an International Rap Artist, contracted private/professor, tutor, and Entrepreneur in his spare time: educating, performing and being a global change agent wherever he can around the world while holding a TED Talk (Atlanta, GA in March 2018) and more prestigious awards under his belt at the ripe age of 25 years old. Recently, he has just completed a semester of study abroad in China for the Fall 2018 semester, where he became the first individual to obtain the highest GPA possible in the history of the program (a 4.0 GPA in American standards) whilst being an International rap star with performances, commercials, tours and promotions from Shenyang and Harbin in China. He likes to laugh and be cheery during his ambitious mission to save the world in the best Hip Hop way he knows how.
Currently, Michaelangelo works full-time at his own private business, Valentino’s Workshop, a business that tutors disadvantaged and needing children throughout the DMV area in K-12 + Collegiate Math and English subjects of almost every level, Test Prep (GRE, Praxis, SAT, etc.). Valentino’s workshop currently extends to all parts of the nation with online tutoring as well, with contracts offered to the business all across the country for tutoring services. Valentino’s Workshop also works with consulting with those in music careers or pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors.
In his tireless and ambitious mission to liberate the world, he likes to laugh and be cheery during his ambitious mission to save the world in the best Hip Hop way he knows how. Maryland (MD) DMV Bowie