Young Buck Quotes

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

I started rapping when I was 18-19.

When I was 18 or 19, I started writing raps properly.

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

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

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

I started rapping towards the end of middle school. In high school, with a lot of my friends, we would make beats and just start rapping - beating on the wall, beating on the table and freestyling.

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.

When I did rap and rhyme, it wasn't just a word that rhymed with another one.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

I've been rapping since I was 13.

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

Honestly, I started playing the pause game right after the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. That's around when pauses really started.

Scarface is my favorite rapper.

Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don't know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?

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

I grew up with park jams. That's how I knew about rap... The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping. I just used to be so in awe and fascinated and like, 'Wow, this is amazing!' But I would never, ever touch the mic. Heck no.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!