Business Quote by Chamillionaire

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in…

— Tommy Hilfiger

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the…

— Ian MacKaye

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

— Jaron Lanier

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so…

— M.I.A

If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going…

— Om Malik

I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money.…

— Paul Graham

Cash Money really had no intentions of being a rap label because when it started, it really was based on bounce. It was one…

— Mannie Fresh

The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's…

— Steve Aoki

I think that's where the music business is where it is today because at one point, we were just splurging so much money and…

— Fabolous

You have the rap industry trying to stay above water by giving the people what they want, but then you have the people who…

— Rahki

People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's…

— Gurbaksh Chahal

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

— Raoul Peck