Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.