Nipsey Hussle Quotes

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Nipsey Hussle

Profession : Rapper

Birth : August 15, 1985

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.

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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.

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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.

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You've got to have faith in what you're doing and not take no for an answer.

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I always had faith in my creative capacity.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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.

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Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create - in one generation - closing the gap. That's why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real.

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As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

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I like Cardi B!

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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.

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I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

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