Billions Quote by Girl Talk

I was an underground artist, but the underground status was successful. Coming from where I came from to see where rap is now, now…

— Rakim

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and…

— Saul Williams

They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that way. And…

— Ice Cube

There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So…

— Ice T

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that…

— Saul Williams

I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can…

— Russell Simmons

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

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out…

— Ice T

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

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't…

— Young Jeezy

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

— Vanilla Ice

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the…

— K'naan