Anything Quote by Jay Sean

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

— Kendrick Lamar

I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started writing poems…

— Chanel West Coast

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

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

— Yukmouth

When I was 18 or 19, I started writing raps properly.

— Stefflon Don

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

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

I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop,' and my English was…

— Rich Brian

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've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

— Gabriella Wilson

I started writing songs when I was eight.

— Wiz Khalifa

I first rhymed at 5, but it was not until I was 6 that I got serious about it, so Ive been rapping for 10 years now.

— Bow Wow