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If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like…

— Boots Riley

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

— Chuck Eddy

Rap started as this very black, socio-political type of thing. And now it's turned into pop music - we laugh about how everybody is…

— Stephen Glover

I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a…

— Rakim

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music…

— Richard M. Nixon

I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.

— M.I.A

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

— Ice T

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

— Dan Deacon

Before rap my last name was my lifestyle, and when I visualize success it looked like right now.

— Nipsey Hussle

The old West Coast rappers are the way I rap; they weren't always on beat but it was about telling a story. I'm just…

— Blueface

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

— Kanye West

I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.

— Gonjasufi