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We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more…

— Andy Mineo

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

When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we…

— Michael Eric Dyson

We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and…

— Prodigy

We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We…

— Bakari Kitwana

Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating,…

— Bell Hooks

I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.

— Bakari Kitwana

“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the…

— bell hooks

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

— Rakim

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

As we continue our fight to advance civil rights and racial justice, we need to not only recognize but celebrate how Hip Hop and…

— Jamaal Bowman

When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom;…

— Rakim