Because Quote by Jackson Katz

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

— Alicia Keys

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

— Bobby Seale

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

— Dan Deacon

I think rap is creating a reverse racism.

— Eddie Rabbitt

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as…

— Archie Shepp

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

— Jerry Heller

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

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

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