Currents Quote by Assata Shakur

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other…

— Simon de Pury

I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop.…

— Bakari Kitwana

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

— Erik Parker

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if…

— Assata Shakur

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

— Doug E. Fresh

Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

— Kurtis Blow

I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small, rural town…

— Steve Stoute

After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of…

— Bakari Kitwana

Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because we both…

— Amadou Bagayoko

Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face…

— Bakari Kitwana

Hip-hop is such an amazing thing that kids still want to do it. They're not saying, "Ugh, that's the old people's music." No, they're…

— Nas