The Aristocrats

Tech: I want to say mine first because mine's gonna be different from everybody else's, I think. They always ask me, "How do you feel about the state of hip-hop?" and I say, "I love it. I love it." And they ask why, and I say because it's helping black, white, Chinese, Latinas, whatever you may be — young motherfuckers — get up out of poverty. It's positive. I don't give a fuck if it's Soulja Boy, or it's fuckin' Young Joc or Young Drew, whoever. I love that hip-hop is getting these motherfuckers out of the streets. We're actual MCs. We actually fuckin' take the time to say some clever shit to impress everybody else, even the other MCs. Some guys out there, they don't give a fuck. This is what they're supposed to do. It's the reason for Soulja Boy. It's kids that wanna dance. It's necessary. You know what I'm sizzlin'? I'm a fan of music. So just because he don't flow like I do don't mean I'm'a say that ain't real hip-hop.... Like, Nas said, "Hip-hop is dead." I don't believe that it's dead. I feel like his outlook on what hip-hop is is dead, and it's not the dominant thing. So that's the way to say it, and say it right. And you got Luda to say, "Hip-hop ain't dead. It lives in the South." Fuck yeah, dude! It can live wherever you push it.... There's money for everybody, so why hate on the next man 'cause he does it different? So when they ask me what I think about the state of hip-hop. I say I love it because it's dominant. It's dominant in everything. You see it in rock. You see it in country — Nelly and fuckin' Tim McGraw. What? That's wonderful.

Mac: That was a good song.

Tech: Little, young motherfuckin' kids getting' money, to where their kids are rich. Don't matter what color they are. I think it's wonderful that these young motherfuckers are getting' money, and I'm one of them.

Mac: That's just how it sums up for me — young motherfuckers gettin' money. That's what it is for me. I don't care about the industry or music or anything, really. It's just money and being creative and not answering to anybody.

Tech: Being able to take care of your family. 'Cause that's where we started. We got a love for hip-hop. We got a love for R&B, for rock and roll. We got love for all that shit. So when you find out that you can do it to get money to take care of your family — that is wonderful. And you got motherfuckers who say, "Aw, he's just doing it for the money." No! We all started broke as a motherfucker. Bums. I was a bum with talent. My wife had to buy our motherfuckin' marriage rings. I was a bum, dude, you know what I mean? That's how much she wanted to marry me. All I had was talent, living in Icy Rock's basement, loving music. But then I got with a shrewd businessman who said, "We can get this shit out there." ... Now it's a way that we can take care of our family. Why wouldn't you wanna do that?

Mac: If I was just wanting to start something to make money, I would start an amateur porn site because there's more money in porn than there is in music. I do music because I want to. People say, "You do it for the money." No. I would be a pimp — like, an Internet pimp ... like, with one of those porn sites where you can join nine other sites — and I would turn it out and have billions of dollars. But I do music because I wanna do something I respect.

Tech: That makes sense.