Behavior Quote by Carl Hart

I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the…

— M.I.A

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music,…

— Jason Whitlock

Around the time that I was in high school, a lot of rappers were coming out with mixtapes of them rapping over other people's…

— Saweetie

Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea…

— Boots Riley

The problem with drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. There’s a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and it’s…

— Betty Ford

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in…

— Tommy Hilfiger

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs,…

— Vince Staples

A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come…

— Nicki Minaj

I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous…

— Ice Cube

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the…

— Isaac Hayes

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

— Carl Hart

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

— John Walters