Becoming Quote by Killer Mike

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

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

— Cornel 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 culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be…

— Hal David

Rap always has that undertone of rebellion and I just wanted to explore it. I felt there was a rebel within me who was…

— Badshah

I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.

— Chance The Rapper

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can say they have a documentary…

— Phife Dawg

There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because…

— Ad-Rock

Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.

— Drake

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

— Rita Dove

Rapping was just something that I started doing cause I thought it was cool. I just went ahead and did that cause everybody was…

— T-Pain