Culture Quote by Kanye West

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

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

— Method Man

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 has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

— Jay-Z

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

I've never been massive on rap, but there's that whole kind of culture of U.K. rap.

— MNEK

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

— Cornel West

We went through rock 'n' roll, which then became just rock, then punk rock, then the worst disease of all - rap music. It's…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

— Afrika Bambaataa

Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short…

— Chance the Rapper

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

— Ice T

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

— Playboi Carti