"A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level."
- Jay-Z
"It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none. "
- Snoop Dogg
"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and ..."
- John Green
"You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you."
"Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music."
"A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall."
- Jaron Lanier
"The dull pulse-like beat started at eleven o’clock at night. It was a new kind of music called ‘rap’. It baffled Ananda even more than disco. He had puzzled and puzzled over why people would want to l..."
- Amit Chaudhuri
"Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death"
- Rotik the marathi rapper
"What's the Symmetry???John Doe...Jane Doe... wtf... wtf..."
- Deyth Banger
"My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lorraine Hansberry with "A Raisin in the Sun". Like Shakespeare when he does his thing, like deep stori..."
- Tupac Shakur