Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach…

I just want everybody to have fun. When I came into rap, that was my whole inspiration. That's what rap used to be about.

— Mase

We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what…

— Ice Cube

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

— Yoko Ono

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

My real, full name is Chelsea Chanel Dudley. In my opinion, Chelsea Dudley does not sound like a rapper. So I was like, 'You…

— Chanel West Coast

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to…

— Young Thug

I like being a rapper and cursing and getting paid. But at some point I feel like I'm going to be an old angry…

— El-P

I approached my career like a rapper. I would go to every open mic, every studio session, bringing my beats. I would almost do…

— Zaytoven

A lot of people are comfortable labelling you because it's easy. Like, 'He's a rapper. He can only do this. He can only do…

— Jay Park

Wayne will take a whole day or week to come up with something different, just so he doesnt sound like the next rapper. Hes…

— Lil Chuckee

I never wanted to perform like a rapper.

— Denzel Curry

I feel like this - everybody, every rapper to me, I feel like every rapper got a little bit of E-40 in them, whether…

— E-40

Hey boy what's ya name? Lookin like a rapper, but you prolly push 'cain. Rockin ya drop top pumpin game. Frontin like you really…

— The Jacka

I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of…

— Angie Thomas

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

— Spencer Pratt