A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

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 listen and even move their bodies to an angry, insistent onrush of words – words that rhymed, apparently, but had no echo or afterlife. It was as if they were an extension of the body: never had words sounded so alarmingly physical, and pure physicality lacks empathy, it’s machine-like.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans.

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.