Street Hustle Quotes

The same day I was supposed to go to college, I ended up hitting the studio and then poppin' out on the block after that.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

When I was cutting hair, I felt like that was my trap. I started selling haircuts. I started selling beats; that's me trapping. So trap music is like hustling music to me.

There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

Trap music, to me, is hustling music.

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

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.

I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.

When I went to England on my own, I became a busker. I played guitar for money in Leicester Square. And the guys who are supposedly blind and crippled, who aren't, got me after I'd collected a lot of money, took my money and threatened to break my arm if I ever came back to their 'kip,' their turf.

I used to get money and hustle and do it in the streets.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.

I wasn't really into music. I was into the streets. I was too worried about the streets and how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

In my late teens and early 20s, I started selling mix CDs on the street.