Cases Quote by James Fenton

There's rappers out there that don't even know how to rhyme. They take someone else's words and go with it. To each his own.

— Big Daddy Kane

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

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

— Trick Daddy

There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the…

— Rakim

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything…

— J. Cole

When I did rap and rhyme, it wasn't just a word that rhymed with another one.

— Rudy Ray Moore

I come from the era where we didn't say 'he can rap' we said...'He can rhyme.'

— Cee Lo Green

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

— Gene Weingarten

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

— Peter Steele

There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The music they're…

— Al Green

As I said I mean the substance is definitely missing from a lot of Hip Hop music. A lot of people are just talking…

— Diggy Simmons

I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do…

— Robert Lopez