Differences Quote by Russell Simmons

There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem…

— Russell Simmons

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap…

— Archie Shepp

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or…

— Stevie Wonder

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

— Dennis Rodman

As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two of us,…

— David Banner

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

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's…

— M.I.A

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the…

— Thomas Sowell

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

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

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and…

— Ice T

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