These artists talk about 'ho this, bitch this, skank this' and all the other stuff. They're talking about all our mothers, all our sisters. They're talking about their own mothers, grandmothers.

You have to have knowledge of self and knowledge of history. Because if you had that you would not use that terminology. You would not even be in that mindset. And we're in a time when young black boys and girls want to be pimps and strippers, because that is what they see..

The eighth Ice Cube studio LP, titled Raw Footage, was released on August 19, 2008, and featured the singles Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It and Do Ya Thang. Ice Cube appeared on a song by rapper The Game titled 'State of Emergency' off The Game's album, L.A.X.

Something is definitely wrong. The potential for [rappers] to deliver a message of extraordinary power, that gets people thinking [is there].

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

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Magazine (September 1991). • So if I act like a ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it If I call you a nappy headed ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it If I shoot up your ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it If I rob you of ain't nothin to it gangsta rap made me do it •, ',, (January 3, 2008). • The only trend I do not like in rap right now is the message rap. I consider the message rap the equivalent of what strings were to rock 'n' roll in the late '50s - a capitulation to the adult norm who can't accept the music on its own terms. The people who considered 'Sixty Minute Man' by Billy Ward and the Dominoes, 'Annie Had a Baby' - as the pinnacles of '50s R&B now are super uptight over the - in quotes - hotel/motel lyrics of rap. Rap is definitely as true to the essence of rock 'n roll as anything that's out there today.

• quoted by (1991). Rap Attack 2, p. New York: Serpent's Tail. • [T]he hip hop nation is wonderful.

Surely there are those who would demonize this group of young people, but they are only doing what our ancestors have always done: used what they have to get where they need to go. • Nikki Giovanni, for 'RECOGNIZE!

Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture' at the (2008). • The history of conscious hip-hop is interesting. The best MCs in the world have always — when I first came in the business — always needed to have something conscious, something dealing with the community, something uplifting, something positive. Even if the majority of the content was negative, you had to have that. And that changed over time. You had and came out, and then you had.