Top 60 Nipsey Hussle Quotes

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

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

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

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 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.

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.

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

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?

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.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

‘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.

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. ‘Daytona’ is that on the highest level.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

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.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

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.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

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.

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

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

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

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

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 think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

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

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

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

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

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

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

I really am a fan of Ye’s music.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Looking at 2014, I look back: we made more money off ‘Mailbox Money’ than we would have made off taking an advance from anybody. We made more money letting our fans buy the stuff directly from us than what any label could have offered us.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

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.

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

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

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

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

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

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.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

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

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.’