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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

— Eminem

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

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

— Ice Cube

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

— Kanye West

I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

— Bocafloja

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

— Cornel West

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

Rap is supposed to change. It's supposed to do new things.

— Ahmad Balshe

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

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

— Ajay Naidu

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap…

— Archie Shepp

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or…

— Stevie Wonder