Art Quote by Rahki

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

— Young Thug

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the…

— K'naan

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on…

— Chance the Rapper

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and…

— Ice T

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works,…

— J. Cole

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have…

— Young Thug

Rap is purging itself from the things it didn't need and it's allowing the younger dudes to come up. With that being said you're…

— Mic Geronimo

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't…

— Young Jeezy

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

— Ice Cube

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

— Irwin Shaw

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream…

— Zadie Smith

So much of rap sounds the same, and that's okay, but that means some people want something that can be the complete opposite too.

— JPEGMAFIA