Nipsey Hussle
I pay attention to politics and technology.Collection: Technology
As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa.Collection: Family
Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.Collection: Success
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.Collection: History
I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Good
It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything - 'Marathon' or 'All Money' or 'Crenshaw' - and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.Collection: Experience
Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.Collection: God
I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.Collection: Business
You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Learning
Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.Collection: Truth
I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.Collection: Hope
I always had faith in my creative capacity.Collection: Faith
I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Business
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.Collection: History
My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Art
I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.Collection: Power
I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.Collection: Music
Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
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.
Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is.
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.
I don't ever make moves under pressure.
'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.
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.
My life is real.
I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.
I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.
I built a company at the same time I built a career.
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.
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.
Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.
I'm the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.
You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.
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.
At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.
If I inspire you, pay for it, period.
The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.
One pillar to wealth is having residual income.
I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.
I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.
My music is influenced by L.A. culture.
We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
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.