Common denominator Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

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

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and…

— Saul Williams

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

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

— Coolio

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

I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

— Bocafloja

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that…

— Saul Williams

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

— Alicia Keys

In this time, we incorporate money and media, and it's split up like apartheid, where when you say "hip-hop," you think just rap records.…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the…

— Ice Cube

With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be…

— Q-Tip

I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing.…

— Shahin Najafi