Although Quote by Neneh Cherry

Black is not defined by the media: Tall T's, Saggy Pants, Icy Teeth or Style of Dance. Black is not defined by the media,…

— Kamanda Ndama

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

— Hiro Murai

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black at this pivotal time in history.

— Todd Boyd

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

For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

— Miguel

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it…

— Toni Morrison

Boney M was the most perfect mix of black and white music, but in America, music still had to be black or white. The…

— Frank Farian

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

— Justin Simien

I never tried to emulate that New York rap style. What I do is a quasi rap. It's a honky rap, not a black…

— Murray Head

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was…

— Moshe Kasher

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be…

— John Legend