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
Akala (rapper) Akala (rapper) Kingslee James McLean Daley (born 1 December 1983), better known by the stage name Akala, is a British rapper, journalist, author, poet, and political activist. Originally from Kentish Town, London he is the younger brother of rapper/vocalist Ms. Dynamite. In 2006, he was voted the Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards. He was awarded an honourary doctorate by the University of Brighton in 2018. Daley was born in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1983 to a Scottish mother and Jamaican father, and grew up in Kentish Town, London. He chose the stagename Akala, a Buddhist term for