''I Couldn't Get Anybody To Sing On My Hooks''
8:30PM ET June 22nd, 2012
Contributor : Martin James
A Rocky Williform Company

Big K.R.I.T. discusses his reasons for singing several hooks on his songs. The Mississippi-born rapper says that his vocalizing was out of necessity--not out of some need to intentionally become a singer.

"The reason I started singing is because, Lord knows, I couldn’t get anybody to sing on my hooks. Obviously, people wasn’t too horrified with my voice," he said. “I never was like, ‘I want to be an R&B singer.'"

"But everybody sung in church," he continued. "And whether you can sing or not, you might have had that solo at Christmas. My grandmother made sure we sung in the choir. All of that helped now in my music…I sung ‘Silver and Gold’ [but] the records that brought the house down was ‘No Weapon,’ ‘Amazing Grace,’ and ‘This Little Light of Mine,’ if you was the youngest kid in the church.”