Money Quote by Raoul Peck

It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy…

— KRS-One

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

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

— Young Thug

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money,…

— Dr. Dre

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

As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.

— Xzibit

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we…

— Tupac Shakur

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

— YG

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

After the first three or four years of me taking rap seriously, it started to look more promising. I started booking shows and more…

— Dave East

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

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the…

— Ice Cube