Album Quote by Jamila Woods

You know, stories got lost in rap. That is why whenever you hear a rapper do a concept storytelling record, it sticks out so…

— Benny the Butcher

It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever it is,…

— Shura

I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill,…

— Himanshu Suri

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

— Ajay Naidu

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details.…

— Skylar Grey

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

— Matthea Harvey

If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album, I have…

— Brent Faiyaz

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about…

— Raftaar

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 thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually…

— Schoolboy Q

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what's happening, it's so much easier…

— Julia Michaels

I don't like rap that doesn't have a story behind it.

— Freddie Gibbs