Bay Quote by Kevin Durand

I spent two years making music in San Francisco for my first mixtape. Initially, I was not at all doing this to be a…

— Lil Dicky

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top…

— AJ Tracey

I grew up producing hip-hop music, actually. I was producing for my friends, who were all rappers in upstate New York, where I'm from.…

— Gus Dapperton

My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different…

— Lecrae

I was always real deep into music. From everything, all around the board - from East Coast, West Coast, down South, everywhere. I just…

— Young Dolph

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a…

— Don Cheadle

I was born in the studio. I knew I loved music. I found my niche at, like, seven or eight. That's when I knew…

— Joyner Lucas

I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own…

— G-Eazy

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

— Andrea Bocelli

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I was such a big music dude. And I made all these mix tapes - I was like the kid who made mix tapes…

— Chris Redd

All I had was a CD with beats. I wrote to every beat on that CD, and when I got off punishment, I put…

— Dreezy