Confession Quote by Zadie Smith

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

— Logic

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

— Young Jeezy

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

— Azealia Banks

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

— Benjamin Zephaniah

If there's something you want to say or talk about, then that's what rap is all about - talking about your own experience.

— Stefflon Don

I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

— Russell Simmons

Rappers can't get with the style extra wicked. Rap flow is bangin' like butter on a biscuit. A tisket, a tasket I'm not tryin'…

— Jackie Mittoo

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

I don't rap, I just spit - like a new born So tell them others niggas cut it out - like a coupon

— Lil Wayne

“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or…

— Jay-Z

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

— Peter Steele

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

— Ice Cube