Flow Quote by Daveed Diggs

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about…

— Raftaar

It's all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.

— Playboi Carti

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah.…

— Earl Sweatshirt

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

— Ajay Naidu

Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.

— Jay-Z

I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do it.' Then…

— Dizzee Rascal

I love rap lyrics, I love hearing people rap, I love molding a thought or idea into the shape that fits on a rap…

— Aesop Rock

Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things…

— Andrew Hoberek

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

— Cornel West

Rap is more of a poetry and a way to express one's feelings, but they're starting to mess it up and I'm here to…

— Anonymous

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

— Rita Dove