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Harvard student submits a hip-hop album as his final dissertation - BBC News
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0:58Now PlayingA senior student at Harvard will be graduating with an A- after submitting a hip-hop album as his dissertation. 20-year-old Obasi Shaw called the 10-track album Liminal Minds and says it combines "elements of Middle English poetry with issues of racial identity in America". He says it was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and his own hobby of writing rap music and spoken word poetry.
It took him a year to write.
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