“I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.” WantKindSaidShowsDreamWantedGrowsGrowing UpStageMinesIndustryMusicianDoctorsEntertainmentWhat You WantLawyerGradesRapperFadesSuperstarFade AwayEntertainment IndustryEighth Grade Author:Lilly Singh
“What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentMusicianMusic IsArgumentWesternRapperClassical MusicRap Music Author:Christian Scott
“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.” ThinkingWarEnoughDrinkMusicianDrinkingHip HopRapperStoppingOld PeopleRap Song Author:Tupac Shakur