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I grew up with park jams. That's how I knew about rap... The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping. I just…

— Pepa

I don't consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I'm not here to tell people what to rap about.

— Pimp C

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

The things I rap about are 100 percent real. But at the same time, I don't rap about those things to tear my city…

— Freddie Gibbs

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

— Cornel West

Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1…

— Kanye West

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 game aint real its all wrestling.

— Lloyd Banks

There are so many rap girls that have just done so many big things simultaneously. It's not like one or the other.

— Ice Spice

To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

— Diplo

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

— Prodigy

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't…

— Young Jeezy