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When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail. -- Michael Eric Dyson
If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem. -- KRS-One
As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family. -- KRS-One
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won't come from conscious rap. -- Bocafloja
It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist. -- KRS-One
We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an anti-systemic experience that is not in some cases politicized, but in general results in a much more transgressive, much more uncomfortable music for the structures of power, than conscious rap or political rap. -- Bocafloja
If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that. -- KRS-One
I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there. -- Macklemore
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition. -- Harmony Korine
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. -- David Foster Wallace
People always want to feel better and be inspired. Sometimes we need it. I think the conscious rapper will always be able to live and exist. -- Common
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box. -- Talib Kweli
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do. -- Nas
I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them. -- Nas
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out. -- J. Cole
I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music. -- Harmony Korine
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope. -- Talib Kweli
That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap. -- SonReal

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