MLK or Black Rapper? 2016 Edition

This, the second annual game of "Who said it: MLK or Black Rapper?", will be organized somewhat differently. Below are a list of quotes and the author is listed directly beneath. So scroll slowly. Remember that one point is given for correctly determining whether the quote was said by MLK Jr. or a black rapper. An additional point is given out for correctly identifying which black rapper authored the quote. R-r-r-ready? B-b-begin.

 Everyone thinks of the future as something that’s coming. Breaking news: the future is now. The future is here.

-Will.I.Am

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God, and keep your face to the raising sun.

-Kanye

If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family, they are looking for food.

-Kanye

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

-MLK

 Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

-MLK

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.

-MLK

I ain’t got tactics, I got Tic Tacs ‘cause I stay fresh.

-Will.I.Am

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

-MLK

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

-MLK

There are three types of people in the world: those who don’t know what happened, those who wonder what happened, and people like us from the streets that make things happen.

-Dr. Dre

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

-MLK

Believe in your flyness, conquer your shyness.

-Kanye

You’re never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

-Will.I.Am

I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.

-Dr. Dre

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

-Kanye

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

-MLK

I still think I am the greatest.

-Kanye

If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.

-MLK

Haters will broadcast your failure, but whisper your success.

-Dr. Dre

Intelligence plus character-that is the true goal of education.

-MLK

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

-MLK

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

-Dr. Dre

We need to forge a whole new energy and American dream.

-Will.I.Am

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

-MLK

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

-Will.I.Am

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he is not fit to live.

-MLK

They wanna hang us, see us dead or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

-Dr. Dre

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

-MLK