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. My concern is the niggas that are really in the shit. I’m more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything
Nipsey Hussle, Complex interview, March 2010
The above is Hussle’s response when asked in 2010 how he felt when “certain rappers like Lil Wayne or Jim Jones rep
“I feel like it’s fraudulent. Straight up,” Hussle said.