Drums Quote by Rakim

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

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

— Mos Def

My thing was, I loved music. I played music: I played the saxophone. So the little bit of music knowhow I had, I tried…

— Rakim

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

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

— Mos Def

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

— Adrian Mitchell

I had one of those tape players with a strap on it and the orange button - the old-school recorder - and I'd record…

— Jadakiss

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

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track…

— Rakim

I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day after day…

— Nathan Englander

As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant",…

— Glenn Kotche

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that…

— E. L. Doctorow