Street Poetry Quotes

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

Tupac was real and honest about every question I asked.

I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid.

I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.

The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."

Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull

I've never been massive on rap, but there's that whole kind of culture of U.K. rap.

I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain

I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was just a punk gangster. People said the same thing about Francois Villon, and he's now considered the best French Romantic poet of all time.

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

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

I really like G-Herbo.

I rap when I'm rich. I rap when I'm broke. I rap when I'm bullshit in the street. I rap about only having one woman now. If you can look at a continuum of my career, it's been an evolution of a real dude. So when I say I take my wife to the strip club, we're there, at the five-dollar joint. More than anything, I want people to take away that I'm not mainstream act.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

I got no problem with Nas.

One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.

Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.