Century Quote by Dean Cavanagh

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

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

— Master P

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

— Jay-Z

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of…

— K-Maro

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

— Steve Stoute

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

— Ice T

Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.

— KRS-One

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and…

— Badshah

I've never been massive on rap, but there's that whole kind of culture of U.K. rap.

— MNEK

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

— Kanye West

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

A lot of rappers were influenced off the West Coast, even from the East.

— Jay Rock