Getting high Quote by Kanye West

I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn't buy any, so I just made my own.

— Metro Boomin

I started rapping on the station promos. We did them over all of the top hits, so people got to hear me rap over…

— Ludacris

Not anyone can rap to my beats.

— Madlib

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a…

— Valee

I know a beat is good for me when I can just start rapping. It's usually hard for me to do that.

— Saweetie

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

— Mike Shinoda

Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in.

— Donnis

I got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.

— Smokepurpp

So take it while you got it try to get a little more they say I'm gettin better than I ever been before, well…

— Mac Miller

When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I…

— A-Trak

I don't rap, I just spit - like a new born So tell them others niggas cut it out - like a coupon

— Lil Wayne

I'll go in the studio and hear a track that I don't like, and they're trying to pay me to rap over it. But…

— Too Short