THIS IS A FIRST: Harvard Student Submits Rap Album As Thesis, Receives Honors!

by | May 23, 2017 | News | 2 comments

Many of today’s more consious rappers are putting albums out there that listen like a thesis but no one to date has actually just outright handed in a rap album as a thesis, that is until 17 year old Obasi Shaw submitted Harvard’s first rap thesis, “Liminal Minds.

Harvard put out an Instagram post which read:

Obasi Shaw ’17 submitted Harvard’s first rap thesis, “Liminal Minds,” which combines elements of Middle English poetry with issues of racial identity in America. “[African-Americans are] free, but the effects of slavery still exist,” says Shaw. “Each song is an exploration of that state between slavery and freedom.”⠀

After graduation, Shaw will move to Seattle for a one-year internship in software engineering. As for rap, he’ll keep it as a treasured hobby. “Rap is a genre in which I can say everything I want to say,” Shaw said. “I’ve been writing in different capacities, but I never felt that I found my art form until I started rapping.”⠀

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And guess what! He received honors for the thesis, an absolute first!

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2 Comments

  1. Ron Mosely

    I dont know if we as a people recall the state between slavery and the beginning of the Black Movements of the 60s and 70s and their end , when we lost focus and vision, by the late 80s, early 90s! 50 years after slavery if this was the days of Garvey, we would have a plan to deal with Trumps budget, now 150 years after emancipation we dont have a clue

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  2. Bobo Bolinski

    Sir… you have a typo in the first sentence – within the first 5 words. Should I continue reading?…

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