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That's another thing yo rappers are scared to bring new styles out. There's so many different ways we can be flowing but everybody chooses…

— Rakim

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

— Playboi Carti

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and…

— Ice T

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the…

— George Clinton

Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

— Big Daddy Kane

Personally, I feel like I'm trying to redefine what a really good rapper can be like. Like, I think it's not often where a…

— Lil Dicky

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

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

— Logic

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

— Chuck D

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

— Ice Cube

For you to be able to rap fast and fit many words into a bar, that's what rap is about, the showmanship. That's the…

— Cakes da killa

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

— Young Jeezy