Business Quote by El-P

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

— Theophilus London

The borders and boundaries of hip-hop have been broken all over the world. There's a great scene everywhere you go.

— Shane Bunting

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

— Eddy de Clercq

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

— Troy Carter

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and…

— Ice T

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have…

— Russell Simmons

I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the…

— Pusha T

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have…

— Kanye West

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 I stayed underground, the music stays underground. There's no other way of being successful, or bringing a certain type of music into the…

— La Roux

In this time, we incorporate money and media, and it's split up like apartheid, where when you say "hip-hop," you think just rap records.…

— Afrika Bambaataa

The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the time, the…

— Kevin Abstract