Chill Quote by Soulja Boy

I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked…

— Tory Lanez

I started rapping towards the end of middle school. In high school, with a lot of my friends, we would make beats and just…

— Damian Lillard

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just…

— G-Eazy

When I was a kid, I was just rapping about school and stuff like that.

— Joyner Lucas

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

— Young Buck

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

— Brandy Norwood

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

— Tierra Whack

I was a rapper. Like every black kid I was attracted to rapping. I wanted to be like L.L. Cool J and those guys.…

— Al B. Sure

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

I started rapping when I was young, like 12, 11. But I wasn't really talking about nothing and it didn't really get me nowhere.

— Tee Grizzley

I started rapping when I was 18-19.

— Goldlink

Rapping was just something that I started doing cause I thought it was cool. I just went ahead and did that cause everybody was…

— T-Pain