A biography for Nipsey Husslehasn’t been written yet.
“I built a label at the same time I built a career.”
“Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.”
“I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.”
“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.”
“I built a company at the same time I built a career.”
“People that's in power - the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally - they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.”
“Every artist wants something different out the game.”
“Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.”
“I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.”
“Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.”
“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.”
“The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.”
“Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.”
“My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.”
“'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.”
“None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.”