Consciousness Quote by Macklemore

I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call…

— Nas

When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

— Rakim

When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.

— Zadie Smith

Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all…

— KRS-One

I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will…

— Scarface

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what…

— Talib Kweli

I guess rap has such a bad name, because everybody can do it now, and that's probably why people don't want to be considered…

— Goldlink

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

— Cornel West

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

— Young Thug

When people ask me what I call myself, I am not going to say 'Christian rapper,' because what they think of when they hear…

— Trip Lee

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

— Ice Cube