Day Quote by G-Eazy

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

— Brandy Norwood

Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and…

— Soulja Boy

I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked…

— Tory Lanez

I started rapping towards the end of middle school. In high school, with a lot of my friends, we would make beats and just…

— Damian Lillard

I always wanted to do something I knew I could love to wake up and do every day, and rap was just second nature…

— Dave East

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 don't know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People started to…

— YoungBoy Never Broke Again

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

— Tierra Whack

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.

— Action Bronson

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

— Cakes da killa

Rapping was just something that I started doing cause I thought it was cool. I just went ahead and did that cause everybody was…

— T-Pain

I always loved music, and really, I've been rapping since I was, like, 12.

— Denzel Curry