Dangerous Quote by Trip Lee

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

— Steve Stoute

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

— Doechii

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

— Lauryn Hill

We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We…

— Bakari Kitwana

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going…

— Jay-Z

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

When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like,…

— Lecrae

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America…

— Prince

I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.

— Phife Dawg

The industry is starting to be more open to what we do. I just don't want us to be boxed in whatever people assume…

— Trip Lee

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

— Michael Eric Dyson