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

— Giavonna Stayturntup Gillespie

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

— Tupac Shakur

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in…

— Ross Kemp

Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns.

— Sean Price

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

— Ajay Naidu

Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin', B.I.G. keep creepin', Bullets heat-seekin', Casualties need treatin', Dumb rappers need teachin'.

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

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

— Ice Cube

The government hates rap. That's why they don't arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man! Only the good ones:…

— Chris Rock

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

People don't accredit Killer Mike and El-P with having the humanity that we do. They don't understand that the darkness and the anger that…

— Killer Mike

These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.

— Drake