Lost Quote by Benny the Butcher

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

— Ajay Naidu

I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it.

— Freddie Gibbs

I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill,…

— Himanshu Suri

When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.

— Jamila Woods

Hip-hop is the art of story-telling.

— Kano

If there's something you want to say or talk about, then that's what rap is all about - talking about your own experience.

— Stefflon Don

“Hip-hop is storytelling.”

— Raquel Cepeda

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

— Alex Turner

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details.…

— Skylar Grey

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

— Lauryn Hill

I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do it.' Then…

— Dizzee Rascal

Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thing that is possible to perform in…

— Daveed Diggs