Quotes from Nipsey Hussle

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

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.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

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

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

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

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

I'm the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

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

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

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

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

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.

Game's always been open arms with me.

Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

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.

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 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.

I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.

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

L.A. hip-hop is so different; it's so diverse. Out here, it's, like, funk-inspired; it's, like, '70s-skating-rink-inspired at times. It's Zapp-and-Roger-inspired; it's house-party-era-inspired.