Rap Battle Lyrics Quotes

Tom Wolfe, of all people, was the first person who ever told me about rap music. He liked to go to Harlem and the Bronx to watch the crews battle it out, and he was writing rap lyrics of his own.

BATTLE RAP, n. A type of performance art where two or more rappers engage in a verbal competition, using improvised or pre-written lyrics to showcase their skills in wordplay, lyricism, and delivery. The aim is to outwit the opponent and awe the audience. While it’s one of the few forms of creative language application that excite teenagers, schoolteachers tend to trivialize the work of 2Pac, Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, and Eminem and idealize Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, and Harper Lee instead.