Acid Quote by Chance the Rapper

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have…

— Young Thug

Mixtapes, it's for everyone and you throw them in the trash quickly. While an album is an object that only your real fans take…

— Young Thug

In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you…

— Eyvind Kang

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs,…

— Chamillionaire

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

I think right now a lot of albums that are out there, they sound like mixtapes.

— Tyrese Gibson

A mixtape is for the street, it's something you without necessarily thinking about it, because you have to stay in the game. It's like…

— Young Thug

Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that's their album. I can't relate, because I've…

— Kelela

I know a lot of people like mixtape Fab, and albums, to me, you're speaking to a broader audience sometimes. I take that at…

— Fabolous

Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short…

— Chance the Rapper

Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

— Chance The Rapper

Albums are just a punctuation of music. I don't usually start out with a manifesto. Your tastes change with the process of the album.…

— Bonobo