Bubba Quote by Russell Simmons

By some estimates, 80% of rap music is bought by white youth. And this makes for another irony. The blooming of white alienation has…

— Shelby Steele

I'm a lifelong fan. There's not a white kid in the world who didn't listen to Eminem rapping.

— Jelly Roll

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are…

— Kid Rock

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

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

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

— Yelawolf

Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.

— Jason Reynolds

I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is black. I…

— Vanilla Ice

I think it's such open game to make fun of myself. First of all, as a white rapper you have to have an angle…

— Simon Rex

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

— Eminem

People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn…

— Talib Kweli