Quote by T-Pain

As far as the rapping, the rapping was just something that I started doing cause I thought it was cool. I just went ahead…

— T-Pain

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.

— Action Bronson

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 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

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years…

— Beck

Rapping is something I just do for fun.

— Sony Michel

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

I think rapping is a platform for me to do other things.

— Rich Homie Quan

Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and…

— Soulja Boy

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

Yeah, I rap, for sure. It's the only thing I like doing in my free time. It's just fun. I've been rapping for years.

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

At the beginning I wasn't really rapping. I had poetry, so it was a spoken word vibe. Then I found beats that you could…

— Arlo Parks