Attributes Quote by Chuck D

Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is…

— Cheryl James

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

— Cornel West

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

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

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and…

— Ice T

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

— Ice Cube

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 the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be…

— Q-Tip

Rap started as this very black, socio-political type of thing. And now it's turned into pop music - we laugh about how everybody is…

— Stephen Glover

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

Rap is purging itself from the things it didn't need and it's allowing the younger dudes to come up. With that being said you're…

— Mic Geronimo