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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other people who they perceive to be richer than them, whiter than them.