Ermias Joseph Asghedom (August 15, 1985 – March 31, 2019), known professionally as Nipsey Hussle (often stylized as Nipsey Hu$$le), was an American rapper, activist, and entrepreneur. Emerging from the West Coast hip hop scene in the mid-2000s, Hussle independently released his first mixtape, Slauson Boy Volume 1, to moderate local success, which led to him being signed to Cinematic Music Group and Epic Records. He became known for his numerous mixtapes, including his Bullets Ain’t Got No Name series, The Marathon, The Marathon Continues and Crenshaw. Nipsey Hussle quotes about love, friends, money, family, hustle will motivate you to achieve success in life.
Best Nipsey Hussle Quotes
- “Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “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.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “It’s important to love in hip hop.” – Nipsey Hussle, Nipsey Hussle quotes about love
- “I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they were afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “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.” – Nipsey Hussle, Nipsey Hussle quotes about huslte
- “Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you are. You weren’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “We were able to become really successful in the mixtape space.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.” – Nipsey Hussle
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“You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I like Cardi B!” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!” – Nipsey Hussle
- “My life is real.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I have seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else comes in.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I built a company at the same time I built a career.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “‘Victory’ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I always had faith in my creative capacity.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “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.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “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.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “One pillar to wealth is having residual income.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “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.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “Every artist wants something different out the game.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.” – Nipsey Hussle
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“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.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “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.” – Nipsey Hussle
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“I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.” – Nipsey Hussle, Nipsey Hussle quotes about life
- “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.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I try to sprinkle little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you’re talking about addressing the foundation of what’s going on with our people when we don’t have any financial power. Our basic needs aren’t being met in a lot of cases, so there’s no way we’re going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.” – Nipsey Hussle
- “I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.” – Nipsey Hussle
