And that's why I love lyrics so much. That's where I spend the lion's share of my energy in terms of my engagement with the culture is through the lyrics.

And that's what often engages people is these artists are able to articulate a lived experience

in a level of specificity and depth in the way that the average person can't but feels. They feel it to that level of depth and the magnitude.

Can't articulate it, but it resonates because for everything that we talked about down to the physiological,

we know that we experience the world physiologically as much as we do

at an intellectual level and that's what the artists are able to create and give back to us.

Therapist uncensored brings you decades of experience with interpersonal psychotherapy,

relational neuroscience, modern attachment,

and anything else they think will be helpful in healing humans.

Now, hear your co-host, Dr. Ann Kelly, and Sue Marriott. discuss the therapeutic aspects of hip-hop music. Hip-hop and therapeutic beatmaking

is an extremely powerful tool for healing trauma, reducing depression, and really empowering, especially our youth.

And this is the second part of a two-part conversation with Dr. Elliot Gan and Dr. listen to the first conversation where we primarily heard from Dr Raphael Travis on his

perspective on the current protest and Black Lives Matter movement.

Dr Raphael Travis is the author of The Healing Power of Hip Pop,

Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture,

and he's also the director of the Clinical social work program at the Texas State University and I really think he gave us a lot of insight from his perspective about really the current cultural movement.

And then today we're going to hear much more from really the current cultural movement.

And then today we're going to hear much more from him as well as Dr. Elliot Gann.

So Dr. Elliot Gann is a clinical psychotherapist and he is the executive director of a nonprofit program called

Today's Future Sound and this program teaches beatmaking and music

production in the context of hip-hop history and culture and they do that in schools

all over the United States as well as juvenile detention centers.

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