Black people Quote by Giavonna Stayturntup Gillespie

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

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

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

There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem…

— Russell Simmons

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

As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two of us,…

— David Banner

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

I think rap is creating a reverse racism.

— Eddie Rabbitt

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

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

“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or…

— Jay-Z