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Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

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, people are drawn to you.

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

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 materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.

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 thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

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 any more.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.