Top 133 Quotes & Sayings by Nipsey Hussle
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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.
My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.
'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.
As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don't have no exit strategy. It's just living in the false reality that it's going to be like this forever.
I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.
It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.
I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real.
I always had faith in my creative capacity.
My life is real.
My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.
Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.
I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.
If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.
None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.
Game's always been open arms with me.
I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.
One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.
I think Ye is important to hip-hop.
Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.
I pay attention to politics and technology.
I would say that the Nipsey Hussle 'Crenshaw' release was an example of All Money In creating an artificial scarcity campaign for the physical side of 'Crenshaw.'
Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.
You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.
Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.
I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I'm doing, you know what I mean? And I think what's gon' separate whoever's gon go for something, that you ain't gon' quit.
I like Cardi B!
As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.
Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is.
I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.
One pillar to wealth is having residual income.
You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.
I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!
I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.
If you've got a plan, it's not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.
I really am a fan of Ye's music.
We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.
'Victory' is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It's just about reaching a place in myself.
I'm the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.
It's important to love in hip hop.
I think that every artist - or anybody that's in business - could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.
Anybody that doesn't like Cardi B a hater!
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.
I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.
As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.
The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.
I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.
Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.
Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.
I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that's it, and somebody else come in.
I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.
I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.
As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?
Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of 'em and I could deliver with the best of 'em.
The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.
I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.
It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.
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