Nipsey Hussle Quotes

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

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

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

I really am a fan of Ye’s music.

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.

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.

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

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

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

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 think Ye is important to hip-hop.

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

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

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

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.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

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

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

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.

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

Snoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

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 knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

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

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

I respect Soulja Boy.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of ‚em.

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

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

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.

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. ‚Daytona‘ is that on the highest level.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you’re talking about addressing the foundation of what’s going on with our people when we don’t have any financial power. Our basic needs aren’t being met in a lot of cases, so there’s no way we’re going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

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

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.

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

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

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

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’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

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

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.

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.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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