A hip-hop loving student who submitted a 21-track album instead of a 10,000-word dissertation for his final coursework has earned himself a first class honours degree.

Nicholas Uzoka, 22, was studying English and creative writing at Norwich's University of East Anglia.

"It was an opportunity to express myself in my favoured form," he said.

"My future will be about music, music and more music. I want to give it my absolute all over the next couple of years and see how far I can get."

Mr Uzoka published the album, featuring nine songs and twelve poetry skits, under his pseudonym Zoka the Author.

Yeah, yeah
Ayo, professor, it's time.
It's time, professor (alright, professor, begin).
Straight out the young dudes of rap.

The music drops deep as does my book.
I never write, 'cause to write is the mother of look.
Beyond the walls of heads, life is defined.
I think of writing when I'm in a Norwich state of mind.

Hope the overlook got some crook.
My cook don't like no dirty look.
Run up to the outlook and get the hook.

In a Norwich state of mind.
What more could you ask for? The witty music?
You complain about philosophy.
But somebody still speaks for the dudes of rap.

I'm rappin' to the college,
And I'm gonna move your knowledge.

Pretty, cool, white, black, like poetry
Boy, I tell you, I thought you were melody.

I can't take the philosophy, can't take the beat.
I woulda tried to read I guess I got no treat.

I'm rappin' to the knowledge,
And I'm gonna move your college.

Yea, yaz, in a Norwich state of mind.

When I was young my mother had a receipt.
I waz kicked out without no seat.
I never thought I'd see that meet.
Ain't a soul alive that could take my mother's treat.

A loud studio is quite the flow.

Thinking of writing. Yaz, thinking of writing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-eng...d-dissertation



A Norwich State of Mind (The College Hip Hop)

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