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I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

— Leon Bridges

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

— Joanna Newsom

It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.

— Mike Posner

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

— James Taylor

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

— Aurora

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

— Mike Shinoda

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

— G-Eazy

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

— Timbaland

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

— Don Cheadle

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

— David Guetta

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Awkwafina