Jay Z gave his thoughts on racism and hip hop’s affect on it during an episode of Oprah Winfrey’s Master Class series.
The “Forever Young” rapper started off by saying he strongly believes racism is taught to young and impressionable kids in the home, but hip hop has changed that.
“It's very difficult to teach racism when your kid looks up to Snoop Doggy Dogg,” he mused, Rolling Stone reports.
He credited the music for bringing people together, saying when people of all ethnicities and races started partying together; they started to realize “we’re more alike than we’re separate.”
“I think that hip hop has done more for cultural relations than most cultural icons,” he explained, excluding Martin Luther King and the first African American president, Barack Obama.
“The impact of the music, this music didn't only influence kids from urban areas; it influenced people around the world,” he continued of hip hop. “People listen to this music all around the world and took to this music."
Huffington Post notes Jay Z himself has paved the way for hip hop, becoming one of the genre’s most respected artists. He has 20 Grammys under his belt and he has the most No. 1 solo albums out of any artist.
He admits his take on hip hop’s influence on race relations is a “strong one,” as well as an “interesting” one.
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