City Quote by Freddie Gibbs

We really just live our life. We rap about our life, where we from, our city, what we've been through, from the streets to…

— Westside Gunn

Definitely Im real in everything I write down to what record. I found that really important. Whats the point of rapping about something you…

— Diggy Simmons

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

— Tee Grizzley

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who…

— Chuck D

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

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

In order to get new things to rap about, you've gotta live.

— Lil B

I feel like you should rap about whatever you want to rap about.

— GloRilla

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

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream…

— Zadie Smith

I rap about life in general, particularly my life, unless telling a story.

— Denzel Curry

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

— Lloyd Banks