Life Quote by Daniel Kaluuya

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

— Macklemore

“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In the Blackness"…

— Jay Woodman

When you from Down South, it's, 'You're a trap rapper,' 'You're a street rapper.' They try to put you in a category.

— Young Dolph

You can even get used to having a hole in your life where someone used to live. A hole where you thought they'd live…

— Sally Nicholls

My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think…

— Emmy Rossum

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

— James Bay

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of…

— Nas

I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will…

— Scarface

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way…

— Theophilus London

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

Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you…

— John Waters