Instruments Quote by Max Roach

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

— Aesop Rock

To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group…

— Mike D

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the…

— Isaac Hayes

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

— Charlie Benante

Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it's still a small community of artists. We all tend…

— MF Doom

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and…

— Badshah

There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The music they're…

— Al Green

There's rappers out there that don't even know how to rhyme. They take someone else's words and go with it. To each his own.

— Big Daddy Kane

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

— Rafael Casal

Hip-hop was started on groups.

— Quavo

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the…

— Quincy Jones

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