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When I started rapping, I was like, I'ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn't happen. I didn't have time.

— Rico Nasty

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

— Adam F. Goldberg

I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract…

— Joe Budden

I secured Big Jam through my buzz in the city. My name got bigger and bigger throughout my 1st year of rapping.

— Polo G

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so…

— Ice T

I've changed and grown so much in this business from making the standard rap record.

— Trina

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

— Ice T

Not my lifestyle so I made a U-turn. More money I earn, more money to burn. Pushin all buttons, pullin all switches. My name…

— Kool G Rap

I don't plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn't want to come off as too aggressive, which is why…

— RM

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to…

— Young Thug

Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging…

— Rakim

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just to get…

— Moneybagg Yo