Quotes About Youth

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.

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.

It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

I was rapping at eight.

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

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.

I've been rapping since I was 13.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

When I was a kid, I was just rapping about school and stuff like that.

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

I'm thinking of the kids of the next generation and the music that they need to hear. Before, I was just rapping to rap. Now, I'm rapping to change the world.

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

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.

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

I started rapping when I was 18-19.

It never crossed my mind that I was the white guy rapping. I was best friends with Chamillionaire and whatever he did, I did. If he rapped, I rapped. It was something we did for fun at the track meets or basketball games. Or get in these freestyle cyphers with other schools. Me and Cham rapping together.

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

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

Ever since I was a kid I've been rapping.

I was rapping at school, at talent shows. I thought I was a little star.

It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.

It's rare in the NBA, but I have a lot of young female fans from eight to eighteen because of the way I dress and the way I do my hair. People sometimes call me a pretty boy, but I embrace it. It's fun, and I guess it just kind of comes with being a good looking white guy in the league.