Dumb Quote by Tupac Shakur

Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world.

— Chamillionaire

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

— Moneybagg Yo

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

— Chuck Eddy

Before I got signed to Bad Boy, I grew up listening to Snoop and Tupac and my hood was all Tupac driven.

— Mase

I don't know where I fit in the spectrum of rap yet.

— Nicki Minaj

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

— Dee Dee Ramone

Rap was my drug.

— Eminem

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

— Moshe Kasher

I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.

— Gonjasufi

I started rapping on the station promos. We did them over all of the top hits, so people got to hear me rap over…

— Ludacris

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

— Ice T

I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid.

— Lil Uzi Vert