Art Quote by Badshah

In India we are creating mainstream hip hop music, than what real rap music is. The lyrics aren't that personal, since most of the…

— Badshah

Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short…

— Chance the Rapper

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads,…

— Ice T

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

— Cornel West

I am not a rapper. And I believe people in India are not even clear with the whole idea of rap or what it…

— Guru Randhawa

Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more…

— Eric Thomas

The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and…

— El-P

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream…

— Zadie Smith

Nowadays, everybody wants to be a rapper, but not everybody can rap..

— Dominic Amali

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that…

— Saul Williams

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

— Mike Will Made It

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't…

— Michael Franti