Guy Quote by John Jeremiah Sullivan

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap…

— Archie Shepp

Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what…

— Ice T

It's funny: I've seen a lot of the rock attitude come into play in the rap world, where it's like they're angry, or there's…

— Lzzy Hale

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

— Ice Cube

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the…

— K'naan

People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder…

— JPEGMAFIA

One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.

— Lil Uzi Vert

To everyone saying rap is bad for society, I disagree. Rap is good for society as is any genre of music, it's a form…

— Palenana Mae

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

— Master P

Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1…

— Kanye West

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

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't…

— Michael Franti