Beginning Quote by Jerry Heller Download Open image “Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.” — Jerry Heller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beginning Gangsta rap Important Movement Rap
Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
If you look at any movement Hip Hop would be the most influential in the last maybe 15, 20 years. — Pitbull Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive. — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do with it, and it's like I'm not a killer man , I'm a musician, I'm a DJ we got like a different heart. Ya know back then when rappin' was fun, and we could immolate being gangstas; ya… — DJ Quik Copy Share
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and… — Badshah Copy Share Image
I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It's rebellion against your parents.… — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories. — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was like the first time… — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
I don't want to be judged next to guys like Suge Knight. I want to be measured next to David Geffen, Irving Azoff, and… — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that's what I was into. — Jerry Heller Copy Share
My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them. — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the entertainment industry: Those that close deals and those that don't. — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
The problem of the Panthers is that they scared people. The music of N.W.A didn't scare people; it taught people what it was like… — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
“Ghetto denizens are supposed to stay put. That’s what the ghetto is for. Straight Outta Compton was a jailbreak.” — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of… — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The only vocal training I had was playing with a tape recorder as a kid, and you know, doing the beginning of the 'Lone… — Michael Buffer Copy Share Image
January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase, the first in every area of our life. It's devoted... The principle of first fruits is that when you give… — Paula White Copy Share
In the beginning, if you look at those early label albums of the Chicks, we didn't write all that much. We had an A&R… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
When there is a mission before you, you see it from its beginning to its conclusion. — Jesse White Copy Share Image
When God made the world, all things began with him. Life, death, it all began when he said so. That includes you and me… — Manae Poet Of Carisis Copy Share Image
In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
Some projects feel like the stars are aligning for them from the very beginning. — Gregory Smith Copy Share Image
