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

— Jay Sean

Well Ive been rhyming since I was 5 years old and I kinda stopped when I was 10. Then this summer I got back…

— Diggy Simmons

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

— Kendrick Lamar

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

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

— Mos Def

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

— J Balvin

Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.

— Rakim

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

— Gene Weingarten

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

— Denzel Curry