Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and…

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning,…

— Sarah Kay

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks…

— Jamila Woods

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

— Terrence Howard

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

— Shura

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the…

— Damon Galgut

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was…

— Langston Hughes

I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that…

— Immortal Technique

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

— Rakim

I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not…

— Nas

Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ...…

— Tony DiSanto

For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the…

— El-P

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way…

— Jay-Z

By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something…

— Talib Kweli

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through…

— Hoodie Allen