50 Cent should stick to what he does best, rapping, and leave the funny business to comedians.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

It's really important for me to show kids that there are other ways to get rich beyond rapping.

I know a beat is good for me when I can just start rapping. It's usually hard for me to do that.

When I got into high school and I was rapping, it was the attention I was loving. It was so hype.

To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.

I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.

You gotta step up your bars! Look, I run two labels. I sing. I dance. I don't spend all my time rapping.

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping.

I'm influenced by like, 50 Cent and Chief Keef 'cause they were rapping about the same things I was living.

Obviously, my aspirations are to be considered one of the best. Like, anyone rapping should have that mindset.

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

I secured Big Jam through my buzz in the city. My name got bigger and bigger throughout my 1st year of rapping.

In order to maintain your longevity, you have to know the business. It's not about just rapping and performing.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.

I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

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

If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.

From the beginning with 'So Far Gone,' Drake's work has been to find a way to deftly balance his singing and his rapping.

I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.

I hate it when people in India throw in an American or English accent while rapping without even a passport in possession.

When I started rapping, I was like, I'ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn't happen. I didn't have time.

I don't take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.

People had boxed me in as a 'pretty girl with followers that's rapping,' but I think my project and the work speaks for itself.

Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that's where I got my rapping chops up.

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.

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I wouldn't be here. I'd probably be rapping, but I wouldn't be well known if it wasn't for the Internet.

Rapping is competitive. Even someone who is not particularly fond of my music, may claim to be my fan only because he hates Honey Singh.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.

We all tried rapping, we all tried singing, we all tried different kinds of styles and performances, so we naturally found our perfect spot.

I wanted to explain that just because I'm rapping in this funny way doesn't mean that I'm not worthy of actually being evaluated as a rapper.

I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.

I grew up listening to T-Pain and The-Dream, and they were doing that thing, rapping and singing at the same time. That's where I get it from.

If you listen to the old Rock I always had one tone of rapping, but now I'm learning how to stretch out my voice and use it in different ways.

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