Hip hop Quote by Fat Joe

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.

— Jerry Heller

There is some gangsta music I like, like Biggie Smalls - he reminds me of Slick Rick -doing the same thing, but he did…

— apl.de.ap

I'm a gangsta, and I spit nothin but gangsta shit, That's comin from a five-deuce, Hoover gangsta Crip. Bangin Street Military, Point Blank, and…

— Z-Ro

Gangsta to me is the Black Panther Party.

— The D.O.C

Now I will bop my head to gangsta music - I'm not going to lie.

— Metta World Peace

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

— Alicia Keys

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

— Russell Simmons

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

— Coolio

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

— Bocafloja

I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I…

— Goldie

I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.

— Kyle

We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an…

— Bocafloja