Giving Quote by Boots Riley

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

— Cornel West

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

I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that…

— J. Cole

What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics? Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.

— Skeme

As an artist when you come into [hip hop] you don't know nothing really. You just know what you do and it's free of…

— Mic Geronimo

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in…

— Afrika Bambaataa

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk…

— Afrika Bambaataa

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

I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.

— Nas

Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against…

— Chuck D

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

— Dominic Amali

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

— Chuck D