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“You gotta let people express themselves”: The United States president talks hip-hop in Vietnam

At a town hall meeting with young people in Ho Chi Minh City today (May 26), US president Barack Obama turned an interaction with a young Vietnamese rapper into a discussion of hip hop music as a means of cross-national communication—and offered a thought experiment to illustrate the importance of free expression.

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