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How Hip-Hop Can Make Climate Action Cool | Samir Ibrahim, MyVerse and Kristen Warren | TED

Music can amplify social issues and inspire people to care about new (and sometimes unexpected) topics. But can it take something as dire as climate change and make it mainstream? With artists MyVerse and Kristen Warren as an inspiring opening act, social entrepreneur Samir Ibrahim suggests hip-hop and its stars can help us move from…

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Music can amplify social issues and inspire people to care about new (and sometimes unexpected) topics. But can it take something as dire as climate change and make it mainstream? With artists MyVerse and Kristen Warren as an inspiring opening act, social entrepreneur Samir Ibrahim suggests hip-hop and its stars can help us move from talking about the problem to rapping about (and acting on) solutions.

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  1. One Sustainable Choice

    July 22, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    A beautiful song with an important message!

  2. Chandrashekhar Kumar

    July 22, 2022 at 2:01 pm

    ๐“ฆ๐“ฎ๐“ต๐“ฌ๐“ธ๐“ถ๐“ฎ ๐“ซ๐“ช๐“ฌ๐“ด ๐“ฝ๐“ธ ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฎ 90,๐“ผ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

  3. Ubaid Bhat

    July 22, 2022 at 2:13 pm

    I don’t usually watch TED videos, but after seeing this video I am definitely not seeing anymore videos.

  4. Ojisan Kukki

    July 22, 2022 at 2:14 pm

    Don’t copy that floppy!

  5. sumi

    July 22, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    Due to the Hip-Hop, I listened more carefully. ๐Ÿ˜…

  6. 0 0

    July 22, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    You guys are all hating bandwagoners in the comments. The rap was good. And he did a decent job in speaking after.

    He also knows what heโ€™s talking about โ€˜Mind playing tricks on meโ€™ by Geto Boys is an all-time classic ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿพ๐ŸคŸ๐Ÿพ

    Black culture controls the cool indeed. It has to happen organically tho, and not forced

  7. serge

    July 22, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    How Hip Hop can try to make “warming something other than the scam that it is – LMAO – Can hop hop wake up

  8. burdrchitect 1

    July 22, 2022 at 2:21 pm

    It was Covid, now that it’s narrative has simmered down. Now it’s time to push the Climate Change… Lol.

  9. grumbazor

    July 22, 2022 at 2:32 pm

    to reach the desired target audience for your message i highly recommend hillbilly country music

  10. Turtle

    July 22, 2022 at 2:45 pm

    Climate action is officially less cool than it’s ever been… Great job! ๐Ÿ‘

  11. THATMOFODIRT

    July 22, 2022 at 3:03 pm

    TED-WOKE

  12. TURBINE XP_ ELECTRONIC COURSES

    July 22, 2022 at 3:05 pm

    โš™๐Ÿ“ก๐Ÿ”ง

  13. J H

    July 22, 2022 at 3:07 pm

    Nom nom nom! Thanks WEF! Break me down and build me back better black rock! Hail Klaus. Smash the 4 olds!

  14. aristochat3

    July 22, 2022 at 4:29 pm

    Yeah the guys with nature killing pimped out Escalades and private jets. Got it

  15. THESocialJusticeWarrior

    July 22, 2022 at 4:40 pm

    Why does it need to be cool? Something is wrong.

  16. Stephen Walder

    July 22, 2022 at 5:49 pm

    Itโ€™ll take more than rap to put the cool in climate change

  17. Solitary Reaper

    July 22, 2022 at 7:37 pm

    Lmao

  18. Hadrien Bruet-Mochet

    July 22, 2022 at 7:59 pm

    You wish to save the world but you prefere to buy your f*cking Iphone as cheap as possible, don’t you see you just don’t get it ?

  19. MyVerse

    July 22, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    Peace and love yโ€™all! I am one of the artist thatโ€™s in this TED talk with Samir ๐Ÿ˜Œ I love the message of how Hip Hop has been influential to social change. Imagine it being an instrument for climate action! Thanks for watching! Hope this reaches who it needs to! Blessings โœจ๐Ÿคฒ๐Ÿฝ We love you Mother Earth ๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒ

    • JASHINE LOVE

      July 23, 2022 at 12:24 am

      ๐ŸŒŽโค๏ธ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ’“.. Thank you For this ..

  20. Tone Riggz

    July 22, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    MyVerse, Rock Steady Crew

  21. bts shorts

    July 22, 2022 at 8:42 pm

    Hip hop = future USA presidents
    Hip hip = news will be released through hip hop
    Hip hop = as medical treatment
    Lol hip hop ๐Ÿ˜rules this country

  22. Nahuel Jesus Gonzalez

    July 22, 2022 at 8:43 pm

    the problem its in the fact that hip hop roots, and where it is more efective, are on a portest tone. THey manage to get near on this song but not from the right angle, in my opinion. Protest baceuse of lack of action isnt the same as protest because of opression, BUT LETS BE CLEAR climate change is gonna opress low class big time. I time to time get ever more impress with how low class, or as we called it in my country “humble class”, dont worry about their real climate future, we will lose people, wheres the protest for that? i mean real scenario protest, “my family is organ-failure dying bc of damn climate breaker shitti economic sistem” protest… THIS AINT ABOUT HOW GOOD A SONG SOUNDS, its about how bad does it really need to be to give that emotional punch capable of reching others… i mean just make it relatable. Peace

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      July 22, 2022 at 8:46 pm

      im waitin on you kendrick

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    July 22, 2022 at 11:26 pm

    Yeah youtube, fill the comment section with your sarcastic comments.

    There’s not long left. Tick-tock, tick-tock.

  24. zim babwe

    July 23, 2022 at 12:04 am

    Gay

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    July 23, 2022 at 1:28 am

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  26. Robert Forsythe

    July 23, 2022 at 2:49 am

    Loves Stories, What happens when you put to many fish in a fish tank? Think we got to many humans in the Earth tank. Add a greedy few that run the show and this happens.

  27. keenarnia

    July 23, 2022 at 7:39 am

    This title made me LoL. You guys lost it

  28. ๊น€ํ˜„์„ฑ

    July 23, 2022 at 10:41 am

    not a good song

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    July 23, 2022 at 12:06 pm

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    July 23, 2022 at 2:50 pm

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahaaa!

  31. Joseph Islam

    July 23, 2022 at 3:26 pm

    Im inclined to think this idea is great and execution will be very important.
    People tend to uptake goals when they see an impending difference. When someone imagines what may happen if they do do something against what may happen if they dont do something, they get motivated to uptake goals, by Judy Ho.
    Reminders to appreciate the planet in the song at hand are existentially correct to this topic, because they put focus on the planet, and in volume, will inspire action. Additional directional correctness will come from
    hip hop also portraying the world as if imagined by a person post climate catastrophe, and hip portraying the world as if imagined by a person post climate catastrophe aversion.

  32. Tran Loan

    July 23, 2022 at 3:33 pm

    I love the song. totally agreed that hip hop can influence all the big issues into culture

  33. Ink Stains

    July 23, 2022 at 3:35 pm

    Too little too late

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  43. ๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ…บ๐“ ใ€˜Pra๐–•a๐–™anKa๐–‘i๐–˜arโƒiใ€™

    July 24, 2022 at 5:39 am

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    July 24, 2022 at 5:40 am

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    July 24, 2022 at 6:13 am

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    July 24, 2022 at 6:15 am

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  47. ะฏั€ะฑะตะบะพะฒะฐ ะ“ัƒะทะฐะปัŒ

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  48. ABDI ABDALLA

    July 24, 2022 at 5:45 pm

    This is an incredible point raised by Samir and MyVerse+Kristen…Climate Change is a pressing issue…and if Hiphop can influence its listener’s to be more aware of climate change…then that’s a beautiful thing….i don’t understand all the negative responses to this video..very weird

    • Rampant Obesity

      July 25, 2022 at 11:53 am

      It doesn’t feel like authentic hip hop because it has such a clear agenda. They might as well be rapping about the refreshing taste of Pepsi.
      This is not to say that climate change awareness isn’t important, though, just yo be clear.

    • ABDI ABDALLA

      July 25, 2022 at 12:11 pm

      @Rampant Obesity they used hiphop flows and cadence and swag to convey an important message..if a professor of Ecology or sustainability who was wearing nerdy glasses and balding would have tried conveying the same message these 3 formidable people tried to convey to a young hip audience it just wouldn’t have worked. If you wanna listen to Myverse’s Mixtapes and music and poetry and rap battles outside of this you can…she’s insanely talented. Her subject matter ranges from civil rights and police brutality to fun hiphop that was traditionally made in the 80s and 90s. Check her out and also check out Kristen

  49. Slangy Russian

    July 24, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    Just great !

  50. Thankful Lally

    July 24, 2022 at 6:47 pm

    ๐Ÿ’ž๐Ÿ’ž

  51. Hla Myint

    July 24, 2022 at 7:58 pm

    Modern problems require modern solutions, awesome ๐Ÿ‘

  52. Milton Bayne

    July 24, 2022 at 9:32 pm

    Keep trying, a lie is NEVER cool !!!!

  53. โœฟShahrezad Nor๐Ÿ’œ Mohammadiy

    July 24, 2022 at 11:17 pm

    โค๏ธ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒธ
    Gender EQUALITY is everyone’s business.โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’‡

    Stand up for women’s rights every day ๐ŸŒ…โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿง–
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  54. Raphael Herrmann

    July 24, 2022 at 11:43 pm

    Bye ted

  55. D World

    July 25, 2022 at 2:33 am

    Half of yโ€™all in the comment are not getting the point and being racially biased just shows. Canโ€™t deny hiphop does bring impact, manโ€™s trying to point out why not direct the impact towards climate action

    • ABDI ABDALLA

      July 25, 2022 at 5:31 pm

      Finally someone who gets it! Bravo

  56. Apuff Wern

    July 25, 2022 at 6:29 am

    Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Luke 5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Mark 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

  57. Twuan Dixon

    July 25, 2022 at 11:22 am

    Wtf woupd this guy know ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿคฃ

  58. _ThatWhatchtower

    July 25, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    People always be like mother Earth when they talking about how they destroying Godโ€˜s blessings he created for men so they would never go without. They think that if they call her mother Earth theyโ€™re gonna be in the safe zone and that sheโ€™s merciful but what it is is she donโ€™t exist๐Ÿฆฆโ€ฆClimate changes them making these electromagnetic energy clouds for their spacecraft to fly, the mob illuminati or whatever theyโ€™re all involved with it. And theyโ€™ve been replacing a lot of politicians with actors as well as music and try to take over America and make it all satanic

  59. Wilhemina Boone

    July 25, 2022 at 7:53 pm

    Outstanding! Clapping from Norfolk, Va!๐Ÿค—

  60. PrinceDarkly

    July 26, 2022 at 3:47 pm

    Dislike button ratio didn’t let me down

  61. Kishan C

    July 27, 2022 at 9:44 am

    Now we all remember MJ !!! Eternal King who spoke against deforestation and protecting earth

  62. Juan Direction

    July 29, 2022 at 2:29 pm

    Cringe

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