Conversation Quote by Thundercat

I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that…

— J. Cole

Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea…

— Boots Riley

I feel like when people are talking about how they make music or how they are the biggest rapper, I don't understand how that's…

— Slowthai

I think hip-hop brought it on itself. When rappers got a chance to talk to the media, they would get in the interview and…

— Too Short

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse…

— Zadie Smith

I am used to experiencing so much trauma, that when I see it, I have to speak out. I don't think rappers have a…

— JPEGMAFIA

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

— Russell Simmons

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

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in…

— Afrika Bambaataa

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

It's gonna sound so boring to most people. There have been times when I've been told, 'Oh, you're doing an album about physics? I…

— Gza

I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.

— Nas