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Before rap my last name was my lifestyle, and when I visualize success it looked like right now.

— Nipsey Hussle

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

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

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

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 was never really like, 'Oh, I wanna be famous,' you know, 'I wanna be a big rapper.' I mean, I love rap, but…

— Chamillionaire

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible,…

— Talib Kweli

Rapping gave me confidence. I got asked to do talent shows and I came up out of my shyness that way. My name was…

— Da Brat

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

— Moneybagg Yo

I don't know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People started to…

— YoungBoy Never Broke Again

When I first started doing music I was singing, then I started rappin, then I came back to the singing. It was a big…

— T-Pain

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