Nipsey Hussle Quotes

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

Many artists would want a major label. But, if someone made you big, it doesn't mean they're no longer good enough when you get big. If you want to add, add. But don't get rid of your original team.

Of course, I want to sell records, and of course I want to get played on radio, but it has to be about making the record that I'm proud of.

I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.

We make sure we have total artistic control with our albums. We were working with Interscope Records, and they had a hard time with us having all the control. So when we signed with Warner Bros., we told them we would be working hands-on with our producer, and they were cool with it.

Atlantic has been great to me. They didn't flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio.

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

The larger the band gets, the more people from the label get involved.

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

You don't necessarily have to go public to get to the next level.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

I love being able to work with other artists I admire, but I have a lot to do on my own before I am willing to make it all about embracing other people.

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

To me, this is the perfect marriage. There's no friction. There's just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals.

The plan is to keep on putting out records until someone shows up and tells us to stop.

Sometimes when you get in this game, you think that you're going to take off if you do a song with someone big. But that's not the truth. Everything with you got to be good - the visual, the push, the production.

I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?