Mom Quote by Tory Lanez

I started rapping when I was 18-19.

— Goldlink

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

— Action Bronson

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

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

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 about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

— Young Buck

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

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

— Cakes da killa

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

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

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

— Tierra Whack

I always loved music, and really, I've been rapping since I was, like, 12.

— Denzel Curry