Quote

I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

— Queen Latifah

Sentiment: POSITIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

— Abbie Cornish

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

— Katy Perry

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

— Ice T

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

— Eve

You get people who rap about stuff that they don't do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you're like, 'Wow. They're so sweet.'

— Missy Elliott

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

— Beck

I'll be honest with you: before I heard Nicki rapping, I probably wouldn't have thought to rap myself. Just to see a female doing it and being in there with the guys, it was motivation.

— Tink

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

— Awkwafina

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

— Flume

I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

— Andy Milonakis