Been Quote by Nas

I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will…

— Scarface

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

— Macklemore

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've…

— Coolio

Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all…

— KRS-One

When people ask me what I call myself, I am not going to say 'Christian rapper,' because what they think of when they hear…

— Trip Lee

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

— Coolio

I guess rap has such a bad name, because everybody can do it now, and that's probably why people don't want to be considered…

— Goldlink

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

— Nipsey Hussle

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

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

I don't actually like calling myself a rapper. I'm more a performer.

— CL

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

— Russell Simmons