Black Quote by David Banner

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

— Dennis Rodman

Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about…

— Killer Mike

People need to realize that because black people have been established in the U.S. for a lot longer than in the U.K., the culture's…

— AJ Tracey

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the…

— Thomas Sowell

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

There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if…

— Kelela

With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be…

— Q-Tip

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire…

— Robert Bly

By some estimates, 80% of rap music is bought by white youth. And this makes for another irony. The blooming of white alienation has…

— Shelby Steele

You have the rap industry trying to stay above water by giving the people what they want, but then you have the people who…

— Rahki

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the…

— K'naan

Broadcaster: Rap is Dead Black people be like R.I.P They just killed a thug

— Giavonna Stayturntup Gillespie