Bring Quote by Young Jeezy

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

— Playboi Carti

If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see…

— 2Pac

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and…

— Saul Williams

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

For you to be able to rap fast and fit many words into a bar, that's what rap is about, the showmanship. That's the…

— Cakes da killa

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

In order to get new things to rap about, you've gotta live.

— Lil B

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

With rap, you go in the studio, you make music, you put the music out, then all of a sudden, you're a star: you…

— Jay-Z

If we're all saying that rap is an artform then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because…

— Tupac Shakur

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

You have the rap industry trying to stay above water by giving the people what they want, but then you have the people who…

— Rahki