Firsts Quote by Ab-Soul

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists,…

— Curtis Jackson

I think that a lot of battle rappers have a difficult time making songs because they don't know how to do a song format.…

— Big Daddy Kane

Battling is therapeutic for Hip Hop, but you can't take it serious. I mean, you got to take it because when you're preparing your…

— Jadakiss

I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

— Fat Joe

I've been following battle rap for a long time. Me and Daylyt are real cool. We battled on my album, he's on my album.…

— Ab-Soul

I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing.…

— Nelly

Sometimes you have to fight with music.

— Bob Marley

I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.

— Chance The Rapper

I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract…

— Joe Budden

I never gave up rapping - it gave up on me. There was no industry and no appetite for UK rap back then and…

— Doc Brown

I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.

— Donald Glover

Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in.

— Donnis