Rap Music – Quotes

Growing up listening to

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That’s an important part of being a successful musician. It’s a good thing, I guess. Ezra Koenig

Sometimes I feel like

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. Eminem

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you’re always going to find a hip-hop tape; that’s all I buy, that’s all I live, that’s all I listen to, that’s all I love. Eminem

If we were to

If we were to see Western landay poems, we’d see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music – that would be the space we’d find American landays in. Eliza Griswold

The power of the

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they’re about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related. Eliza Griswold

The advancement of style

The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music. El-P

If it\\’s a band

If it’s a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I’ll admit that if it’s crap music, I hope they won’t and it’ll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place. Eddie Vedder

Ego is my career.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego. Earl Sweatshirt

It just happens to

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. Earl Sweatshirt

I love Lady Gaga

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music… I love big, American pop music. Florence Welch