Care Quote by Samantha Morton

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

— Playboi Carti

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

— Cornel West

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

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're…

— Eliza Griswold

I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's game,' and they keep trying to…

— Jay-Z

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

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

— Ice Cube

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

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

— Afrika Bambaataa

Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against…

— Chuck D

We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an…

— Bocafloja

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its…

— Michael Eric Dyson