It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

Rap was my drug.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

I’ve had the honor of speaking at many commencements.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Ability without honor is useless.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It’s the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The post of honour is a private station.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

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

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

Reggaeton is a global genre.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you’re always going to find a hip-hop tape; that’s all I buy, that’s all I live, that’s all I listen to, that’s all I love.

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.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you’d see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.