Music Quote by Stephen Glover

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

— Aesop Rock

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

— Cornel West

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

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

— Kanye West

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

— Playboi Carti

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

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

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be…

— Chance The Rapper

Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop.

— Q-Tip

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

— Stanley Crouch

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

— Ice Cube

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

— Jay-Z