# @harvard on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BUPyLlrDVK4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21655860-harvard-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-05-18T20:11:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Harvard University (@harvard) — https://gondola.cc/harvard

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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.”⠀
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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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