{"id":321422,"date":"2017-05-22T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=321422"},"modified":"2017-05-22T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:03:02","slug":"harvard-student-submits-rap-album-as-final-year-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/harvard-student-submits-rap-album-as-final-year-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard student submits rap album as final year thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A\u00a0<\/span>Harvard student has\u00a0become the first in the university’s history to submit a\u00a0rap album for\u00a0his senior thesis.<\/p>\n
Student Obasi Shaw, who will graduate from the prestigious university next week,\u00a0produced his album Liminal Minds\u00a0while other classmates wrote novels, poems, and short stories.<\/p>\n
The 10-track album is the first to be submitted as a senior thesis at the university, and weaves inspiration from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales<\/em>\u00a0with the current race issues.<\/p>\n
Mr Shaw was awarded a\u00a0summa cum laude minus\u00a0<\/em>mark for his album – the second highest grade a student can receive in the department.<\/p>\n
“[African-Americans are] free, but the effects of slavery still exist,” Mr Shaw told the Harvard Gazette<\/em>. “Each song is an exploration of that state between slavery and freedom.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n