Rap Origin Quotes

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

I'm the first rapper ever popping his collar.

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

I've been rapping since 1979.

Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and stuff like that. One day at school my friends were freestyling at the lunch table and thats where it all started.

The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that.

Lots of people are saying that I shut down mumble rap in one 10-minute setting. But that wasn't my intention, because mumble rap - if we go back - that's something I invented.

As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.