African Quote by Quincy Jones

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and…

— Badshah

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

A lot of rappers were influenced off the West Coast, even from the East.

— Jay Rock

Rap started as this very black, socio-political type of thing. And now it's turned into pop music - we laugh about how everybody is…

— Stephen Glover

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

People stereotype female rappers a whole lot.

— Tink

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

— Lauryn Hill

The old West Coast rappers are the way I rap; they weren't always on beat but it was about telling a story. I'm just…

— Blueface

Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about…

— Killer Mike

The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers - I always noticed that.

— Cordae

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

— Master P

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own…

— Max Roach