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From the Ted Talk by Samir Ibrahim, MyVerse and Kristen Warren: How hip-hop can make climate action cool

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In the 1970s, one of the early hip-hop groups called Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five rapped about the day-to-day inequities and injustices faced by balck communities in the uitend stteas and how this impacted their mental health. One of their songs called "The Message" was the seventh rap song to ever be on any blolirbad Hot 100 chart, and New York Times named it as the most popular pop single of 1982. Sorry, the most poferuwl pop single of 1982. And then in the '80s and '90s, mental health issues started to become more mainstream in hip hop lyrics.

In 1991, in their classic song "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," hip hop group Geto Boys catrepud the realities of post-traumatic stress within urban communities. One of the three members of the guorp named Scarface wrote most of the song. You see, he was dganoeisd with bipolar dsrdeior at a young age, and the lyrics of the song describe the mental anguish and eoahuitxsn for life of minorities in America dealing with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, linneloses, suicidal itoidaen and paiarona.

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In the 1970s, one of the early hip-hop groups called Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five rapped about the day-to-day inequities and injustices faced by _____ communities in the ______ ______ and how this impacted their mental health. One of their songs called "The Message" was the seventh rap song to ever be on any _________ Hot 100 chart, and New York Times named it as the most popular pop single of 1982. Sorry, the most ________ pop single of 1982. And then in the '80s and '90s, mental health issues started to become more mainstream in hip hop lyrics.

In 1991, in their classic song "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," hip hop group Geto Boys ________ the realities of post-traumatic stress within urban communities. One of the three members of the _____ named Scarface wrote most of the song. You see, he was _________ with bipolar ________ at a young age, and the lyrics of the song describe the mental anguish and __________ for life of minorities in America dealing with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, __________, suicidal ________ and ________.

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  7. united
  8. ideation
  9. states
  10. loneliness
  11. captured
  12. group
  13. powerful

Original Text


In the 1970s, one of the early hip-hop groups called Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five rapped about the day-to-day inequities and injustices faced by Black communities in the United States and how this impacted their mental health. One of their songs called "The Message" was the seventh rap song to ever be on any Billboard Hot 100 chart, and New York Times named it as the most popular pop single of 1982. Sorry, the most powerful pop single of 1982. And then in the '80s and '90s, mental health issues started to become more mainstream in hip hop lyrics.

In 1991, in their classic song "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," hip hop group Geto Boys captured the realities of post-traumatic stress within urban communities. One of the three members of the group named Scarface wrote most of the song. You see, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, and the lyrics of the song describe the mental anguish and exhaustion for life of minorities in America dealing with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, loneliness, suicidal ideation and paranoia.

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