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In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.

— John Hodgman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

— Kid Rock

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

— Danielle Fishel

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

— Dee Dee Ramone

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

— Eminem

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

— Ja Rule

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.

— Bill Clegg

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

— Kim Gordon

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

— Mayer Hawthorne

Rap was my drug.

— Eminem

✗Opposing Perspectives

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

— Chuck Eddy