Look Quote by Dave East

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just to get…

— Moneybagg Yo

With rap, you go in the studio, you make music, you put the music out, then all of a sudden, you're a star: you…

— Jay-Z

I say as long as the individual stays creative and continues to come up with fresh new and exciting ideas, rap will be here.…

— LL Cool J

I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think…

— Flume

One of the reasons I know how to handle my business is because I know can't rely on rap.

— YG

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

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

— Iman Shumpert

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

— JPEGMAFIA

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

— Rita Dove

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

— Raoul Peck

I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.

— Chance The Rapper

Although I have made my career on dirty raps, I have worked over the years to somewhat balance the content of my music with…

— Too Short