Always Quote by Big Daddy Kane

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

— Young Jeezy

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

I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don't have a message behind it and you not saying nothing, it doesn't…

— Cordae

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

I'll rap as long as people want to hear it.

— Snoop Dogg

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about…

— Raftaar

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

— Ice Cube

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

— Rita Dove

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious…

— J. Cole

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

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

— Al Yankovic

In order to get new things to rap about, you've gotta live.

— Lil B