Acting Quote by KRS-One

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

— Doechii

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

— Steve Stoute

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going…

— Jay-Z

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years,

— Geraldo Rivera

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

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America…

— Prince

It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to…

— Ice T

It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that…

— Dave Itzkoff

I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that…

— Ice T

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

— David Byrne