"It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited."

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With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.

— Q-Tip