Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

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.

I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

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.

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.

I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

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.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

I think everybody's trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

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

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.

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.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

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

I don't ever make moves under pressure.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

When you say 'follow me on Twitter,' and you get 10 million people to follow you - you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

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.

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.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

My life is real.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

I respect Soulja Boy.

As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don't have no exit strategy. It's just living in the false reality that it's going to be like this forever.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

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.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

Snoop ain't never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, 'That's the next Snoop.' Nah, I'm Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.

In 2013, the week before I dropped 'Crenshaw,' 'Complex' wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists - their point of view is not validated in our culture.

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.

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. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

I would say that the Nipsey Hussle 'Crenshaw' release was an example of All Money In creating an artificial scarcity campaign for the physical side of 'Crenshaw.'

Game's always been open arms with me.

Anybody that doesn't like Cardi B a hater!

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

I really am a fan of Ye's music.

Looking at 2014, I look back: we made more money off 'Mailbox Money' than we would have made off taking an advance from anybody. We made more money letting our fans buy the stuff directly from us than what any label could have offered us.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.