Nipsey Hussle Books & Quotes

“Wishing on a star can turn your life into a dream.”

“Every single loss in your life is a lesson.”

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

Years Stories Home America Culture Sides Mom Involved Conflict My Family Raised My Mom Pops Our Family Household Grandparent Back Home Ethiopia Formative Years Eritrea

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“I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped going to school at 15. I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit.”

Feels Littles Different School Bits Subjects College Little Bit Ignorant Idiot Classroom Uneducated Soaking Different Subjects

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“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.”

Stills Book Plans Cold Library

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“A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.”

Real Hard Play Artist Song Games Records Fans Style Radio Ems

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“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.”

Ifs Men Feels Years Looks Stills Like You Picks Mirrors Rags

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“I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.”

Giving Inspiration Solutions Focused

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“I respect Snoop even aside from the music, just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is, after being a pop star and an icon. He's done it successfully and has still been able to balance it.”

Men Way Stills Done Able Stars Balance Pops Icons Pop Stars

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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.”

Ifs Knows Kind Hard Whole Stories Together Where You Are Throttle

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“My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.”

Giving Persons Break Path Walking Make Or Break

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“[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.”

People Feels Country Government Running President Class Position Color Keys Police Eritrea

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

Years Mom Raised My Mom Household Formative Years

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“I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.”

Different Subjects Ignorant Classroom Soaking Different Subjects

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“I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an African-American in office as the President of the United States. It's major, it's a real historic day.”

Real States America President Born United United States Office Majors Lifetime South African American Historic Granny

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“It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actually give him an accurate analysis of the problem in L.A., because they're in it or at one point were a part of it, and now they're workin' to change it, and redirect the energy and the focus of it. And then consciously take steps to solve the problem.”

People Ifs Want Giving Problem Would Be Energy Numbers Steps Opinion Focus Solve Barack Analysis Accurate Gang

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“If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.”

Ifs Able School Five Music Is High School Finished Nine Outlets

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“If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.”

Ifs Law Used Involved My Family Hip Hop Lifestyle Hips Hops

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“I feel that luck is a product of hard work.”

Feels Hard Products Hard Work Luck

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

Doors Ready Luck Prepared All Time

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“I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking and presenting myself as an artist that's commercially sellable led to me meeting the right people, which in turn led to them givin' me positive referrals to other people, which in turn led to me signin' a deal.”

People Feels Years Artist Turns Hours Deals Meetings Studios Crafts Networking Presenting Honing Referrals

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“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.”

Years Age House Left My Own Streets Childhood Teenage Teenage Years

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“I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent money, clothes money - everything was on me, startin' at that age, so that's what led me to start hustlin', that's what led me to start to try to find ways to fend for myself. And once I did that, I was full-time, bein' in the street, and, bein' in the street, it's cold. It's the way the streets operate, and you have to adapt to that.”

Way Trying Shows Age Streets Cold Clothes Gas Adulthood Manhood Gas Money

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“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?”

Knows Men Mean Parent Differences

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“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.”

Wells Helping Parent Decision Effects Well Being

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“If you're a real hip-hop fan and a real street music fan, and you just love good music, you're gonna play it from top to bottom, and you're gonna get the concept, you're gonna get the story of my life, you're gonna be entertained, you're gonna dance you're gonna feel emotion, you're gonna get the truth, whether you like it or hate it.”

Ifs Feels Real Play Stories Hate Emotion Fans Streets Concepts Bottom Hip Hop Hips Hops You Like It Story Of My Life Music Fans Real Street

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“Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.”

Killing

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“We're not the cause, we're the effect.”

Causes Effects

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“As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up and create our own mindstate and our environment; we adapted our survival instincts.”

Young Situation Environment Streets Effects Members Survival Wake Up Instinct Gang Our Environment Adapted Survival Instinct Gang Members

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“Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.”

Trying Survival Instinct Paint Survival Instinct

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“An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.”

Knows Doe Ends Artist Records

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actually give him an accurate analysis of the problem in L.A., because they're in it or at one point were a part of it, and now they're workin' to change it, and redirect the energy and the focus of it. And then consciously take steps to solve the problem. But I don't feel like zero tolerance, strict laws, locking everybody up is a viable means to stop that problem.”

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“In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.”

Ifs Knows Stills Real Would Be Able School Break Five Streets Honesty Music Is Percent Hundred High School Negative Finished Nine Outlets Headings

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“On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.”

Enemy Worst Missions Idle Worst Enemy Idle Time

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“All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me”

Real Wish Smart Smart Money

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“Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. Inspiration is the metric that dictates whether or not a project is a success. It’s more realistic than trying to aim for radio play, or trying to satisfy an AR, or the other gatekeepers on these platforms. I don’t even know how to create with those things in mind. But if you tell me the goal is to inspire? That makes my job a lot easier.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mind Mean Ends Play Inspiration Jobs Goal Know How Inspire Easier Projects Tools Aim Radio Realistic Platforms Metrics Gatekeepers Radio Plays

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“And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.”

Art Integrity Compromise Commerce

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