Quotes from Nipsey Hussle

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.

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.

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

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

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

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

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 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.

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 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 think Ye is important to hip-hop.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

It's important to love in hip hop.

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'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.

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.

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.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

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

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

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