Checks Quote by Talib Kweli

Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

— Talib Kweli

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

— Curtis Jackson

But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the…

— Michael Rapaport

If I was a white rapper, the bar for me would be Eminem. Of course his white skin helped him excel to heights that…

— Charlamagne tha God

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

Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids…

— Chuck D

We Know that World's best rapper is Eminem and He is White

— Wiz Khalifa

NWA has to be NWA. Eminem is Eminem. NWA is NWA. There's two different things there. For example, let's take the first track on…

— Dr Dre

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

— Jelly Roll

There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better…

— Talib Kweli

If you actually understand and listen to what he's saying, there's no one that can compete with Eminem. That's why no one goes at…

— Jamal Murray

I must say, Eminem is definitely the reason why I originally started rapping, like many other white kids my age. I also remember listening…

— Chris Webby