I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music…

I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

— Bocafloja

“Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals enact both…

— bell hooks

I have never seen a rap artist yet to come and say, 'I'm a gangsta'. What he says is 'Man I spit that gangsta…

— MC Hammer

Poverty brings people to drastic measures and that's what the hardcore gangsta rap scene is about. It's called freedom of expression. People should be…

— Bushwick Bill

I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only…

— Bocafloja

But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap,…

— Alan Vega

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

— Shane West

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its…

— Michael Eric Dyson

For all my proclivities for thuggery, I am a typical middle-class dad. I'm a gangsta rap suburban father!

— Killer Mike

I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my…

— Al Yankovic

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

— Eazy-E

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.

— Jerry Heller

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

— Coolio

I spit that gangsta rap forget that hip hop I bump them gangsta ass beats that make yo head bop.

— C Murder

I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave, to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay

— DJ Quik