From Rolling Stone:

Chris Rock: Music kind of sucks. Nobody's into being a musician.
Everybody's getting their mogul on. You've been so infiltrated by this
corporate mentality that all the time you'd spend getting great songs
together, you're busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with
art. You know how shitty Stevie Wonder's songs would have been if he
had to run a fuckin' clothing company and a cologne line?

RollingStone: Plenty of rappers say, "I'm not a rapper, I'm a
businessman."

Chris Rock: That's why rap sucks, for the most part. Not all rap, but
as an art form it's just not at its best moment. Sammy the Bull would
have made a shitty album. And I don't really have a desire to hear
Warren Buffett's album - or the new CD by Paul Allen. That's what
everybody's aspiring to be.

We live in a weird time. No one knows who's smart - we just know who
makes money. "Hey, somebody invented Viagra! We don't know their name,
but we know Pfizer, because they make the money." That guy made a
pill that keeps your dick hard, and nobody knows who the fuck he is. The
pharmaceutical companies are like fuckin' record companies. There's
literally the Bo Diddley of medicine walking around, not getting his
royalties. He signed all his fucking pill publishing away.

I agree with everything he said


You know how shitty Stevie Wonder's songs would have been if he had to run a fuckin' clothing line and a cologne line?

so very true

Obviously true, but no-one ever has the gall to come out and name names. They'll be really vague about the state of the industry as a whole, but if they've got a TV show to present or someone to interview then they'll sit back and read from the script like a good little puppet.