Business Quote by Ghostface Killah

One of the reasons I know how to handle my business is because I know can't rely on rap.

— YG

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

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

Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants or to…

— Chuck D

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

A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing…

— Dave Grohl

You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are…

— Jason Aldean

So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You…

— Mark Ronson

There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass out CDs.…

— Big K.R.I.T

The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do…

— Joss Stone

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

— Young Thug

Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations…

— Bakari Kitwana