Always Quote by Chanel West Coast

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

I started writing rhymes in fact when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was actually into hip hop before anything else.

— Jay Sean

When I was in fourth grade, I started writing a lot of poetry, and eventually, someone in the church was like, 'You should switch…

— Cupcakke

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks

I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came…

— Sasha Grey

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

Before I was rapping, I did poetry. I went to a performing art school, and I won an award for the talent show for…

— Doechii

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

— Kendrick Lamar

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

At the beginning I wasn't really rapping. I had poetry, so it was a spoken word vibe. Then I found beats that you could…

— Arlo Parks

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that…

— Gus Dapperton