Harvard Student Submitted Rap Album As Final Year Thesis And Graduated With Honors


Obasi Shaw is graduating Harvard University with honors thanks to his extremely well-received final thesis. However, Shaw’s final thesis wasn’t like most, but that is what may have set him apart from the rest of the pack.

Shaw’s final thesis was awarded the second highest grade in the department – summa cum laude minus. His final thesis was a rap album, the first of its kind in the history of the university.

The Harvard grad wrote the 10-track album titled “Liminal Minds” this year. The album focuses on black identity in America and each cut is told from a different character’s perspective, which was inspired from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.”

The first track of the free album is titled “Declaration of Independence.”

“Harvard English lecturer and Shaw’s thesis adviser Josh Bell, was highly impressed with his student’s creation, praising the album for its fluidity – both as an academic piece and an artistic creation,” the Independent reports.

The 20-year-old from Georgia “never thought it would be accepted by Harvard,” but now he is graduating the prestigious Ivy League school with honors.

Obasi will be working for Google as a software engineer.

[Independent]

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