Music making Quote by Diggy Simmons

I recorded my first song at 15. But I started rhyming a few years before that. At first it was trading lyrics at school.…

— Kano

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through…

— Hoodie Allen

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

— John Cena

As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious…

— LeCrae

I fell in love with rhyming when I turned 13. I was in junior high. I got into it, but I wasn't serious. It…

— Jay Rock

I had one of those tape players with a strap on it and the orange button - the old-school recorder - and I'd record…

— Jadakiss

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

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

— Kendrick Lamar

I started at 4 or 5 just writing random things down in my notebooks and making up raps. Finding words that rhyme and putting them together.

— Marvin Bagley III

I used to write little rhyming words on the paper. I'd start rapping them at home, when I'd finish my homework. I had to…

— Marvin Bagley III

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

— Del Shannon

When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain rhythms that…

— Rakim