Art Quote by Xzibit

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to…

— Drake

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough,…

— Jay-Z

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially…

— Steve Harvey

Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so…

— Jay-Z

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

— Anne Akiko Meyers

There's this weird misconstrued notion that everybody in this industry is rich. A lot of people in the industry are mad exploited. It's not…

— Ethel Cain

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole…

— Anonymous

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

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

— Raoul Peck

You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better…

— Waylon Jennings

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into…

— Afrika Bambaataa

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums…

— Andre Benjamin