Nipsey Hussle Quotes

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 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.’

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.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

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.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

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.

When you say ‘follow me on Twitter,’ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

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 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.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

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.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

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.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

I like Cardi B!

‘Victory Lap,’ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

‘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 pay attention to politics and technology.

In 2013, the week before I dropped ‘Crenshaw,’ ‘Complex‘ wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists – their point of view is not validated in our culture.

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

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.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

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.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I knew ‘Crenshaw’ had elevated me and distinguished me.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

L.A. hip-hop is so different; it’s so diverse. Out here, it’s, like, funk-inspired; it’s, like, ’70s-skating-rink-inspired at times. It’s Zapp-and-Roger-inspired; it’s house-party-era-inspired.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

I respect Soulja Boy.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

My life is real.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

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.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.