Concrete Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals enact both…

— bell hooks

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

Most of the guys I grew up with let the streets and the gangs influence them. Maybe one or two of them made it…

— Daniel Jacobs

The attitudes of many police organizations were extremely negative to the prospect of Rap, and many officials weren't afraid to say that they were…

— Assata Shakur

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

With gangs, there could be a positive outlook because it takes the older guys to come school these younger guys on the right roles.

— Jay Rock

Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns.

— Sean Price

We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music,…

— Jason Whitlock

My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with…

— Carl Hart

“Rappers, as a class, are not engaged in anything criminal. They're musicians. Some rappers and friends of rappers commit crimes. Some bus drivers commit…

— Jay-Z

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

— Johan Huizinga