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It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing today I've been reading a little bit lately about the

history of hip-hop and it really does seem that one

change that has accelerated quite quickly in recent years is that rappers are

getting increasingly real and open about their inner lives. I want to be clear here I am

no rap historian and real life historians should feel free to at me if I'm

blowing this but my memory is that when I first started listening to rap as a kid back in the 70s and 80s,

the lyrics were really quite centered on partying and bravado, and of course there was a side dish of

misogyny.

By the 90s with the advent of gangster rap you started to get a lot of

gritty reporting on the realities of life on the streets and also some notable glimpses into the

emotional lives of some rappers like Biggie and Tupac, Biggie himself

actually wrapped about contemplating ending his own life. Today's rappers however are taking

vulnerability to an entirely new level and somebody who's been a big

part of this shift is the rapper Common who as you will hear in this interview

talks about therapy, meditation, and childhood sexual abuse.

Common for the uninitiated is an Oscar and Golden Globe, an Emmy and Grammy Award-winning musical

artist.

He has also written several books,

including his latest, which is called,

And Then We Rise, which is about wellness, a subject,

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