Box Quote by Tyler, The Creator

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

— Ice Cube

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

— Playboi Carti

Rap is just to me very annoying.

— James Hetfield

Rap is supposed to change. It's supposed to do new things.

— Ahmad Balshe

Rap will never be the same as before

— Eminem

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 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 a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

— Cornel West

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

Nowadays, everybody wants to be a rapper, but not everybody can rap..

— Dominic Amali

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

— Rita Dove

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