It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is that you can't overthink it,...As long as you got a nice, quality hook, let it go. — 9th Wonder Copy Share Image
I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop… — Dale Earnhardt Jr Copy Share Image
All the female rappers are pregnant and got kids now if you ask me. They still make money. They still doing they… — Sexyy Red Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper." — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of music in general, so writing is something I enjoy all the way around. I could write rap… — 3 Doors Down Copy Share Image
What Happened to Eminem? I LOVE Him! But did he like just drop off the face of the world? You Never Hear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Music is my passion. I've always been musically driven and musically inclined. I play the keyboard a little bit. I love listening… — Demetrius Shipp, Jr Copy Share Image
Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
There are a lot of dope people in the DMV: WillThaRapper, Big Flock, GoldLink, Logic, IDK, Rico Nasty, Goonew and Q Da… — Cordae Copy Share Image
I'm just different. There are a handful of different types of genre of music that I would love to just jump into… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year was 'I… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
Biggie was to me the guy who was the best at painting the picture and making you visualize something, Pac was the… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I'm constantly exchanging ideas with new artists. Honestly, with Jay-Z, our only interaction was a brief hello after I signed. — Jay Park Copy Share Image
That's one of my homies. Whenever he hits me up, he's like what do you want to do and I'm the same.… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.' — Lecrae Copy Share Image
I mean there's no other feeling than when you hear a great hip-hop song. You feel good. If you lose that as… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The 'Def… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with… — Demetrius Shipp, Jr Copy Share Image
Daddy x, d-loc and that boy Johnny richter, bdub, big pak, lou, munchyz the heavy hitter. — Kottonmouth Kings Copy Share Image
When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot. — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
Anything that me and Gucci do is never thought out or planned real deeply. We always just go off of what we… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
If you notice the videos I been shooting in the past, it's always been relevant to what's going on. It's always been… — Scarface Copy Share Image
I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs. — Kim Petras Copy Share Image
Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Trinidad Jame$ is the most garbage piece of rapper that has ever existed on the face of the earth. — Hopsin Copy Share Image
Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality. — Diplo Copy Share Image
I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter. — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper. — Redman Copy Share Image
I feel like this - everybody, every rapper to me, I feel like every rapper got a little bit of E-40 in… — E-40 Copy Share Image
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
