Being cool Quote by Chad Hugo

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

— Todd Boyd

When I was growing up, white people made fun of me. So it was always strange to me as I would gain prominence in…

— Paul Wall

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew…

— G-Eazy

In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect…

— Brian Austin Green

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

— Justin Simien

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew…

— G-Eazy

A lot of times, black people were extremely cool, and that's how we've been commodified in TV and film. But now we're starting to…

— Y'lan Noel

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop…

— Narada Michael Walden

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

— G-Eazy

In 'Losing My Cool,' I argue repeatedly that it is a terrible lie, which has been foisted on us and sold to us for…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

If we're evaluating cool to the way other rappers appear to be cool, then I'm not cool at all.

— Lil Dicky

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

— Cordae