Rap Beginings...
 

Yo, I have a question for all of ya'll...how did you first realize that you had the talent and/or capability to rap. What was your first realization that there was a rapper inside you?

For me it was in english class in a poetry writing unit. At the same time my friends started getting my into rap and I was diggin it. So I thought that if I combined to two (rap with poetry), that I could express myself through words and lyrics in an effective way rather than a boring poem on paper...music was the key and rap was the best way to express my rhyming/poetic skills...

for me it was when me and my friend was just fucking around wit audio and posted it on soundclick and in the first week over 2,000 people downloaded our song

I was twelve... Loved hip hop... Always listened to rap... So I just started freestyling one day, while walking to school... It was wack, but whattya gonna do... Everyday from then on walking to school, I rapped to myself... After about a month I was decent.. started battling some people.. and it went on from there....

good question

i was in 4th grade, a time wen i Playin Ball was ma life(still is,lol) and ms friends and i was only on dat commercial shit. ieven bought Nellys first LP Clean Version,lol, but ma shit was garbage, i got it rite here

"We dont be up in da club cause we aint got no ID/
But some how we mange to roll wit V.I.P./"

it still soundlike some Cash Money Lyrics,lol

but like 7 months ago i found dis site and got merked easily, since then i realized shit and i stopped talkin bout cash and money and ho's and i ma voice got rougher so dat helped, now im signed to an Independent label and im pushin ma demo to Death Row and Interscope, 14 bitches, im young,

PEEP MA AUDIO!!!!!!!!!!!

when did you realize\ you had the talent..... LOL never had the talent just enjoy it!

well i was in new york an canibus was battlen supernatural an my boys was like yo go battle i did ripped canibitch an been steady rollin ever since.....

^ u fo'real or jokin, cause if u not jokin wat did u say to C

yeh thatz soundin pretty hype, lets here more about that...

i was 12 started hearing biggee and 2pac then when i was 13 made some raps with my freinds but didnt go no where then now 3 months ago i started getting high about 7 moonths ago and 5 months ago started freestyling in my head when i had my g-bag playin when all my friends and me were walking around ripped and then i battled my first time...beat my freind KOed his ass and then i was like damn im a rapper found this site off google and then elevated to where i am now..

It's funny im from UK & 95% rappers in this country are WACK cos of there accent . . and there voice kinda . . That excludes S.A.S/Eurogang. & Probably Klashnekoff

When i started rapping I was called wack . .

Then in April I found a new Style . . & Everybody felt my voice Now. . Because My Flow & Style Was Really Dope.

another name change^^^?

I was like... wtf... then I remembered...

When god came down from the heavens and handed me a pen and pad and played a dope beat and said "son, write some fucking rap lyrics"

in my 9th grade chemistry class... i had to do a project based on the periodic table... people knew i dabbled with rap but no one really took me serious... i wrote my paper and turned it in... chemistry teacher loved it and put me on the spot... made me do it in front of the class with my boy banging out a beat on the desk... standing ovation from the class and i believe my teacher stills has that paper... she made copies for future students and shyt...lol

loved music since i could listen, loved hip hop since i wuz 11. got sick of listnin and started rappin. freestylin when i got bored, then started battlin for some extra cash. now im just elevatin.

when I did a parody of In Da Club, don't kno why the fuck I did it. But after that. boom. :) nah layins? weerd...

I always loved hip hop, but when I figured out how to really ride a beat and flow. I was freestyling to a masta ace cut. you know brainiac dum dum bust the scientifical. So i dropped this ill freestyle, at least at the time where I said something like. Last time I had to battle I clocked crazy cattle from this farmer in Seattle. It was pretty ill at the time. After that I was destined to be a freestyle legend.

When I was fucking vango's mom.

some kid at a party kept shootin his mouth off about how he was slick wit tha vocals askin anyone in the house to battle, so my friends an i were there jus drinkin smokin u know tha usual n they said man go battle him jus for the fuck of it.... so many drinks/joints later i got the courage an told son id do it, i think he was surprised someone actually wanted to.... any who we got a beat he spit first was pretty nice then i jus went with it an 'tried to freestyle' everyone laughed at shit i said we stopped battlin eventually after a few rounds then homie gave me props asked if i rapped i said naw an he asked if i wanted to get on a track....

an the rest is history

Rapping along to songs, then I started listening to them, in more detail, And I started to realise the power of the lyrics, and how amazing it was that people could use their words like that, then I came here.

shit everybody on here got way more experience than me, I been doin this for what, 4 months.....

when i was like 10..i was already a poet...the schol had a talent show so me, Black Magik, and our other homeboy KING, decided to do it...(they both already loved to rap)... We were like next to last at the show...as soon as i steeped foot on stage in front of the school i knew that this was the shit for me...the stage felt like home...the fact that we got the most applauds(and bitches dancing) also helped me feel comfortable on stage...Me and my boys still together and we talking to major record companies bout getting signed(and we aint gon be no BOW WOW's or ROMEO's)...So thats how i knew that i wanted to be a rapper...and we still havent stopped rapping since.

dad owns a record label.....so bout a year and a half ago me n my step brother decided to do a song....lol it was wack.....but since then ive realized what true lyrics are and ive elevated a lot since.....im scratching all of the wack songs i did at the beggining......album should be comin out soon

wuts da name of da label

People told me.......

few years ago i started writing poetry... that stemmed into writing song lyrics which stemmed into writing "rap lyrics" which then stemmed into battling, i started battling on this site a little over 8 months ago (or so) under another name, have been goin since. really only been rappin a year or so but have been into rap music as far back as i can remember (yes this white guy loved rap BEFORE the eminems showed up and gave us white rappers a bad name...)

FUCK EMINEM

lol thats my story

i just spit on my friends voice recorder on his cell phone and he was crackin up of the shit it was basic but funny thats back when i talked about rapping everyons moms and shit but i elevated and started goin for reals i gotta make a demo for hole n' the wall records i know a dude who said he'll give me a deal there

I've been rapping seriously since July, when I got on this site. I had been rapping to myself for a year, and decided to elevate. I started from the bottam, and worked my way to where I am now.

well it was like in 4th grade i had started to really get in to
poetry,and words dat rhymed,it was cool,i sucked and needed elevation badly
i mean i was flowin stuff like,i wear a hat,got a cat,and i got my backpack
shit like dat,den a few years later,poetry came easy,and den i started to read
poetry to like beats i heard on da radio.it was tight.den me and sone homies would just sit at church rhymein all day and den i started makin verses
in 6th grade.(i was still writin to beats)and it actually sounded good.people kept sayin i sucked but i kept goin.den i made mah first song like last year
and now currently i have like 9 well goin on 10 songs writin,im still tryin to
find a spot to record ya heard.
yep dats how it went
holla at ya boi!!!!!!

Ive been into rap since i was 12, after i heard "gangsters paradise", i really liked tht song and bought the single. i then started listenin' and buying as much rap as i cud from then on...then i started writing lyrics down and spittin' them on real rappers' tracks...then i was on my computer lookin' for music when i came across a few rap sites', got sucked in to the whole thing', did txt for a while then moved on to audio.

sorry eastcoast....the name of the label im on is MSMM Recording.....(muscle shoals music marketing)...in muscle shoals, alabama

i relized i could flow and tear up a mic about 2 months ago..when i first started audio...

hahaha i was listening to iron maiden...and spektikul was like man...join this rap site its dope...then i was like aight...then im here

oh yeah....im good at poetry in school too....:)