Quote by Wu Tang

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 poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

— Bette Midler

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a…

— Rakim

I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don't make guns. Smith and Wesson makes…

— Cam'ron

It's funny: I've seen a lot of the rock attitude come into play in the rap world, where it's like they're angry, or there's…

— Lzzy Hale

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped…

— Stanley Kubrick

I think there's a lot of death metal or doom metal dudes that somehow or another find a groove in it.

— Vinnie Paul

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

— Nas

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs…

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Ice Cube

Steel is prince or pauper.

— Andrew Carnegie