Able Quote by Saul Williams

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that…

— Saul Williams

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

When I first heard rap, I wasn't quick to be critical. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it…

— Casey Kasem

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except…

— Franklyn Ajaye

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

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

I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having…

— Ice T

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 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 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

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

— Method Man

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