Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.
Ryan Phillippe

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.
Tina Yothers

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
Harrison Ford

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
Kid Rock

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.
Moira Kelly

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

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
Stanley Crouch

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
Archie Shepp

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
Method Man

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
Rita Dove

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
David Lee Roth

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
Ajay Naidu

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.
Wyclef Jean

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.
Archie Shepp

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

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
Kid Rock

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay Z