Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Therapist Uncensored Podcast


TU124 – Hip Hop as Therapy: Beat Making, Lyrics & Community Empowerment

June 30, 2020

Hip hop can be used as creative tool to resolve the deep need for self-expression and trauma in black and brown communities. Song writers in hip hop culture are some of the greatest writers of our generation, they can use in depth metaphor, satire, and word play to express widely shared feelings. This process literally gives a voice to experiences that are otherwise unexplainable and can be used to build community. Guests Dr. Eliot Gann and Dr. Raphael Travis show us the way -