“I’m still stunned,” Kevin 'Coach K' Lee tells us of his accomplishment.
Kevin"Coach K" Lee attends Black Tie Affair For Quality Control's CEO Pierre"Pee" Thomas at Fox Theater on June 02, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.is one proud college graduate 28 years after a gunshot wound temporarily left him unable to walk or complete his final semester at Saint Augustine’s University -- the North Carolina HBCU from which he was set to graduate in 1993 with a degree in economics.
In the years after the ‘93 shooting, Coach K tells Billboard he felt like he “was still missing something.” But he was finally motivated to return to school after speaking with his former basketball coach and mentor in 2018, who asked if he had ever thought about finishing what he started at Saint Augustine’s, during a tailgate celebration at the university’s homecoming.
But things took a turn for the better when a childhood friend who he played high school basketball with called him, saying, “‘Man, coach said if you come down here [to SAU] you can get a scholarship.’” After a visit to Saint Augustine’s University, Coach K tells Billboard he knew immediately that it was the perfect school for him, “Right then, I told coach, ‘I’m coming to play ball here.'”
Almost 30 years later, Lee is the man who discovered the Billboard chart-topping trio Migos, an art collector who proudly supports Black, living artists and the owner of a “unicorn 1989 BMW M3 Convertible,” gifted to him for his birthday by his longtime business partner and Quality Control Music CEO Pierre “Pee” Thomas. “Only [786] of those [cars] were made in the world and I’m probably the only one in the U.S.A.
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