Energy Quote by Jennie

Since we have members who have grown up abroad, we really want to introduce Blackpink to K-pop listeners worldwide.

— Jennie

It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music.

— Jamie Foxx

We're not here as a black band playing white string band music. You know, we play stuff in the Appalachians, we play stuff in…

— Rhiannon Giddens

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

— Cornel West

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

American music culture is black culture.

— Yelawolf

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on…

— Kelis

Because it's our first official album, we wanted to show our color, the color of Blackpink. We wanted to present an image that people…

— Jennie

There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if…

— Kelela

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my…

— Mark Wahlberg

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.

— Thom Yorke

I dont know anybody who can define it. Its like trying to define hip-hop. You cant just call it black music. Maybe it will…

— Don Cornelius