“In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'” IfsMenEnoughWould BeTogetherBlackCommunityCasesCrimeHe ManSmartAgreePrisonRapSentencesDespiteAccusedBeing SmartBlack CommunitySubservience Author:Warren Farrell
“If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.” IfsThinkingHas BeensAmericaCultureBlackNew YorkRapParisCould Have BeenRap MusicBlack America Author:Ice Cube
“I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.” ThinkingWayReasonCultureBlackAcceptanceMusic IsPopsRapSolePop CultureRap MusicVery Popular Author:Ice Cube
“As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.” IfsWantFeelsBookAgeBlackFeetSafeSticksNotesRapSentencesStrikesThese DaysGrandmotherDeniedFeel BetterSkirtsRebukeSafe PlacesNote Book Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.” IfsEnoughCultureBlackSmartRapMasculinityCaricaturesGangstaBlack CultureKkkGangsta Rap Author:Jackson Katz
“One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.” MenWantChildrenFormCultureThreeBlackJusticeDespairRapCriminalsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeRap MusicCriminal Justice System Author:Robert Bly
“I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.” ThinkingMeanProblemHateBlackWhiteRocksMediaI HateRap Author:Ice T
“I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.” PeopleThinkingShouldSoulProblemCultureNamesBlackConsciousnessTalkingIdentityProductsSlaveryHip HopRapHipsHopsBlack PeopleOne Word Author:KRS-One
“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 the community that you came from, and you're romanticizing parts of it for the entertainment of people who don't look like you, you certainly owe something to the community.” PeopleIfsMenLooksBlackCommunityLike YouEntertainmentRapRapper Author:Killer Mike
“Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.” PeopleBlackRapConvinceBlack PeopleGangstaPloyGangsta Rap Author:Alicia Keys