Quote by Diggy Simmons

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

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

— Prodigy

Me as a person, man, I'm just rapping reality. Every time I get in front of the microphone I'm just speaking about real life…

— Yo Gotti

When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

— Lil Durk

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some…

— Dan Rather

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years…

— Beck

I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I like and…

— Mike Stud

I think my genre is more 'reality rap'; I talk about my life and the struggles that I've been through.

— Tee Grizzley

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to…

— Young Thug

The experiences I go through... everything you hear in my lyrics is real. Good or bad, I take it all in and put it…

— Saweetie

When we're rapping on these records, we're either rapping about our past lives or things our people are going through right now in the…

— Pimp C

Honestly, when I do a lot of records where it's super lyrical, all that it is to prove and to show people, like, I…

— Joyner Lucas