74 Best Nipsey Hussle Quotes About Life and Music

The following are 74 Best Nipsey Hussle Quotes about life and music.

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1. “A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with. ”
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2. “And it’s possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.”
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3. “As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too. ”
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4. “At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect. ”
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5. “Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is. ”
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6. “Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop. ”
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7. “Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation. ”
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8. “Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening. ”
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9. “Every artist wants something different out the game. ”
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10. “From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store. ”
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11. “Game’s always been open arms with me. ”
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12. “Hope opportunity don’t knock when opportunists in your group.”
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13. “I always had faith in my creative capacity. ”
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14. “I always had passion for rap music and I was always trying to create a situation to where I could do this full-time.”
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15. “I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music. ”
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16. “I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations. ”
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17. “I built a label at the same time I built a career. ”
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18. “I don’t ever make moves under pressure. ”
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19. “I feel that luck is a product of hard work.”
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20. “I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk. ”
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21. “I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody. ”
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22. “I hit the league straight out the streets with no talent scout.”
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23. “I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams. ”
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24. “I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid. ”
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25. “I just believe in ownership. I believe in investing in yourself. Your foundation should be strong.”
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26. “I knew I wanted to work for myself when I was about eleven.”
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27. “I never wanted to alienate my brand for business. I always wanted to keep it authentic and keep as pure as I could.”
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28. “I pay attention to politics and technology. ”
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29. “I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are. ”
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30. “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. ”
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31. “I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in. ”
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32. “I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry. ”
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33. “I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life. ”
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34. “I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful. ”
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35. “I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive! ”
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36. “I’m focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I’ve either read or I plan on getting to.”
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37. “I’m more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.”
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38. “If you don’t have a plan, it’s very hard to really have faith in what you’re doing ’cause soon as something pop up, it’s gonna look like the end-all.”
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39. “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.”
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40. “If you sharing your success and not your struggle, you’s a fool.”
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41. “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. ”
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42. “I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle. ”
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43. “I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already. ”
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44. “I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth. ”
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45. “It’s important to love in hip hop. ”
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46. “Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. ‘Daytona’ is that on the highest level. ”
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47. “Luck is just being prepared at all times, so when the door opens you’re ready.”
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48. “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. ”
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49. “Most important thing is to get rid of doubt. If you got doubt in what you’re doing it’s not gonna work.”
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50. “Most the time, when it rains it start pouring, but how we grind it make the weather change for us.”
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51. “My career as is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom. ”
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52. “My music is influenced by L.A. culture. ”
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53. “None of my peers avoided prison. None of ’em. ”
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54. “Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God. ”
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55. “On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.”
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56. “One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game. ”
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57. “One pillar to wealth is having residual income. ”
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58. “Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising. ”
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59. “Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth. ”
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60. “Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.”
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61. “Success or greatness come with a roller-coaster ride, anybody can apply the marathon concept to what they do.”
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62. “Success to me is just being able to do what you love to do and support yourself all through.”
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63. “The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them. ”
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64. “Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.”
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65. “To me, respect comes first.”
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66. “’Victory Lap,’ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error. ”
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67. “We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities. ”
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68. “We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space. ”
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69. “We’re not the cause, we’re the effect.”
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70. “When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001. ”
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71. “Without a game plan and without a strong sense of faith in what you’re doing, it’s gonna be real hard to accomplish anything.”
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72. “Your parents are supposed to tell you to make decisions that are gonna help you and that’ll have a positive effect on your life and your well-being.”
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