Cost Quote by Malik Yusef

It's like a paradox. For one side, being popularized rap got better and the other side of it got worse. It's very pop and…

— Ice T

Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop.

— Q-Tip

“Juice is not a fruit. Per drop, juice has the same amount or more of both sugar and calories when compared with sugared soda.…

— Yoni Freedhoff

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

Rappers have traditionally put products in songs, and it's been products that don't put anything back into our community.

— Charlamagne tha God

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And…

— Hal David

If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone…

— G-Eazy

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

— Young Thug

It's all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.

— Playboi Carti

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people…

— Rick Astley

In a certain way, rap music is alternative.

— Big Daddy Kane

Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping…

— D-Pryde