Poetry Quote by Frank Sinatra Jr

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

— Ajay Naidu

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

— Cornel West

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

— David Lee Roth

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 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 poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

— Bette Midler

Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thing that is possible to perform in…

— Daveed Diggs

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

— Anonymous

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

— Rita Dove

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

— Ice Cube

Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.

— KRS-One

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