Giving Quote by Benjamin Zephaniah

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're…

— Eliza Griswold

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

— Rita Dove

You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.…

— Nas

It's all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.

— Playboi Carti

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

— David Lee Roth

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

— Tyler, The Creator

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

— Afrika Bambaataa

There just hasn't been a voice for that normal dude when it comes to rap.

— Lil Dicky

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

— Young Jeezy

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the…

— K'naan

To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group…

— Mike D

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

— Cornel West