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I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and…

— Saul Williams

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except…

— Franklyn Ajaye

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

Rap started as this very black, socio-political type of thing. And now it's turned into pop music - we laugh about how everybody is…

— Stephen Glover

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

— Zubin Mehta

“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or…

— Jay-Z

2Pac made me want to rap, he made me want to speak my ghetto story and not be ashamed of it.

— Boosie

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

— Roy Ayers

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

— David Foster Wallace

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that…

— Saul Williams

In some ways, rappers are like reporters. In particular, at that time, from the West Coast, it was a lot of reporting about what…

— Pitbull

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as…

— Archie Shepp