Atlanta Quote by Murda Beatz

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.

— The D.O.C

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop…

— Narada Michael Walden

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

— Ezra Koenig

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

— Anonymous

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all…

— Chuck D

I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn't…

— Zaytoven

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

— Dwight Yoakam

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew…

— G-Eazy

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew…

— G-Eazy

Between Alan Freed in Cleveland and Bob Horn and Lee Stewart in Philadelphia and George 'Hound Dog' Lorenz in Buffalo, they began to find…

— Dick Clark

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

— Anonymous

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to…

— Russell Simmons