Despite official documents from Stanford University verifying his graduation from the prestigious school of higher learning, Epik High’s Tablo is still facing opposition regarding the integrity of his claims. A group of anti-netizens have even gone as far as filing a lawsuit against the Korean rapper. Well, in a continued attempt to clear his named, Tablo is reported to have been on campus sometime last week with an MBC crew. Keep reading for details!

Tablo’s campus visit was first reported by none other then the Standford University newspaper, The Dish. The Dish reports that despite official documents from the registrar and an English professor, there are netizens that are still questioning these claims, even going so far as to contact Stanford University staff by e-mail to verify Tablo’s credentials! Tom Black, from the registrar, commented that, “My document has a legal bearing here in the United States. I could go to jail if I were to falsify the document. The ignorant mob, I’ll call them, is just spewing poison for no reason.”

Black also had an opportunity to speak further with Tablo about the matter. During an interview with The Dish, Black said that, “I think Daniel is doing very well. He feels very reassured. He saw how we received him – as did the film crew – and he found friends that knew him even while walking around… I had an intimate exchange with Daniel about Korean society and his music. I asked him if he had any controversial lyrics, perhaps themes of reform. He said yes. He said he was speaking, through his music, of that which he had learned at Stanford. For example, he said that sexism is so ingrained in his society that they aren’t even aware of it. Thus, he was touching some raw nerves. No wonder he has detractors!”

Tablo revealed in an interview with The Dish that the controversy has been taking its toll on both his health and the peace within his family life, especially since Tablo recently became a father to a baby girl.

One of the main reasons that netizens are still doubting the claims is because of a recent fallout with a Korean professor who claimed to have graduated from Yale and was even supported by the university itself. It turns out, however, the professor was, in fact, not a Yale graduate. To read more about the incident, click here.

As the controversy continues, I think that the chief editorial writer of the Joong Ang Daily summed it up best: “Tablo’s travails are a story of the Internet in Korea, and how a country that likes to call itself the most wired place on earth has created, with fiber-optic cables, networks and rampant animosity, an out-of-control character assassination machine.”

Source: The Dish