Business Quote by Troy Carter

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

After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of…

— Bakari Kitwana

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try…

— Ice T

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music…

— will.i.am

The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that…

— Fat Joe

Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.

— KRS-One

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

— Cordae

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

— Axel Alonso

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

— Doug E. Fresh

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

— Ice T