Doc Brown (rapper) Zadie Smith. Smith attended Hampstead School and Malorees Junior School along with his sister, and was often seen in her shadow. Upon leaving school, Smith decided to pursue a musical career as a rapper. Doc Brown is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. He abandoned his drama degree halfway through to study American history. Explaining his stage name, he has said: "Doc Brown's been my nickname since school, after the scientist in "Back to the Future", because I was gangly and geeky. When I started doing rap battles in my teens, it became my hip-hop handle and it's
Octavian (rapper) Octavian (rapper) Oliver Godji (born 1996), better known by his stage name Octavian, is a French-British rapper from London. He released his first full-length mixtape, "Spaceman", on 10 September 2018, and has appeared on tracks by Mura Masa and A2. He is signed to the Sony label Black Butter. He was born in Lille, France, from an Angolan family. After his father died he moved to London when he was three with his mother, and settled in Camberwell, South London. As a teenager he won a scholarship to the Brit school, but dropped out. His first mixtape, "22", was released