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

Unscramble the Blue Letters

We need a lot more of that. But more importantly, we need lyrics of songs to transition from talking about the problem into the solution space. I mean, if you're a rapper, a songwriter, a producer, a musician, we need you. We listen to you. I bet most, if not all of you here have made a doiescin because of music. I certainly have. I mean, when I was ygnoeur, the first Air Force 1s I bought, these are not Air Force 1s, but the first Air Force 1s I bguoht were because of Nelly's song. Now, imagine if instead of rapping or singing about Maybachs or Cadillacs, the most influential hip hop artists in the world made electric vehicles aaontiirapsl. Or instead of rapping about the bling around their necks or in their mhuots, they rapepd about the solar panel bling on their rofos.

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We need a lot more of that. But more importantly, we need lyrics of songs to transition from talking about the problem into the solution space. I mean, if you're a rapper, a songwriter, a producer, a musician, we need you. We listen to you. I bet most, if not all of you here have made a ________ because of music. I certainly have. I mean, when I was _______, the first Air Force 1s I bought, these are not Air Force 1s, but the first Air Force 1s I ______ were because of Nelly's song. Now, imagine if instead of rapping or singing about Maybachs or Cadillacs, the most influential hip hop artists in the world made electric vehicles ____________. Or instead of rapping about the bling around their necks or in their ______, they ______ about the solar panel bling on their _____.

Solution

  1. younger
  2. decision
  3. rapped
  4. aspirational
  5. mouths
  6. roofs
  7. bought

Original Text

We need a lot more of that. But more importantly, we need lyrics of songs to transition from talking about the problem into the solution space. I mean, if you're a rapper, a songwriter, a producer, a musician, we need you. We listen to you. I bet most, if not all of you here have made a decision because of music. I certainly have. I mean, when I was younger, the first Air Force 1s I bought, these are not Air Force 1s, but the first Air Force 1s I bought were because of Nelly's song. Now, imagine if instead of rapping or singing about Maybachs or Cadillacs, the most influential hip hop artists in the world made electric vehicles aspirational. Or instead of rapping about the bling around their necks or in their mouths, they rapped about the solar panel bling on their roofs.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
hip hop 14
climate change 7
air force 3
atmospheric carbon 2
carbon dioxide 2
livable future 2
blessed creatures 2
creatures fall 2
die wildfires 2
eyes stop 2
stop waiting 2
waters swell 2
grammy award 2
percent increase 2
hop artists 2
mental health 2
york times 2
pop single 2
national suicide 2
suicide prevention 2
prevention lifeline 2
call volume 2
raise awareness 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
atmospheric carbon dioxide 2
blessed creatures fall 2
eyes stop waiting 2
hip hop artists 2
national suicide prevention 2
suicide prevention lifeline 2

ngrams of length 4

collocation frequency
national suicide prevention lifeline 2

Important Words

  1. air
  2. artists
  3. aspirational
  4. bet
  5. bling
  6. bought
  7. cadillacs
  8. decision
  9. electric
  10. force
  11. hip
  12. hop
  13. imagine
  14. importantly
  15. influential
  16. listen
  17. lot
  18. lyrics
  19. maybachs
  20. mouths
  21. music
  22. musician
  23. necks
  24. panel
  25. problem
  26. producer
  27. rapped
  28. rapper
  29. rapping
  30. roofs
  31. singing
  32. solar
  33. solution
  34. song
  35. songs
  36. songwriter
  37. space
  38. talking
  39. transition
  40. vehicles
  41. world
  42. younger