Rhythmic Storytelling Quotes

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines.

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

I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in a rock song if you can somehow do it without losing the beat.

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Music is poetry with personality.