When I was a teenager I was friends with an extremely poor kid who literally lived on the wrong side of the tracks. He couldn’t afford a microphone and used an old pair of busted headphones to rap into as a microphone. He had recorded and produced a whole album like this with Fruity Loops on an old computer he found discarded at the side of the road.
My little brother and I did this with an old Panasonic tape recorder. We were in elementary school so it wasn't very good, but it got my brother into music production.