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description: Otis Mensah is a British alternative hip-hop and spoken word artist. Mensah was the inaugural Poet Laureate of Sheffield."Hip-hop artist Otis Mensah to be Sheffield's first poet laureate", BBC News, 2
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Brother Bear
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