Nipsey Hussle | How To Master Your Energy [Actually Works]

don't listen to people that I can't learn from so I don't listen to interviews of artists that don't have no value in what they say I don't listen to music from people that I can't get no game from or are you the smartest one on your team definitely not I might be the dumbest one name of the brand obviously is the marathon it just stand for endurance it stand for staying down it stand for like not quitting accepting the ups and downs of whatever game you commit yourself to and riding it out because that's the

reality of success or greatness that it come with a roller coaster ride I think that anybody could apply the marathon concept to what they do if it's Sports if it's fashion if it's music if it's hustling whatever you on a marathon you know so you going to lay in the bed you make you're not going to get away with nothing in terms of the energy you know what I mean you might beat the the camera or the police they might not catch you for what you're doing but the energy is always going to return to

you so when you when you just living in this in this cycle of being negative all day and just putting out negativity and and that's the only energy you putting out it's going to return to you in different form than and you put it out in so I would just say you know master your energy do your best to master your energy and your and what you put out you know and um unless that's what you want you know cuz you you entitled to whatever you want to create whatever experience you want to create for

yourself but if you tired of that adjust the energy you know what I mean as best you can adjust adjust what you wake up thinking and what you say and then lastly what you do and that's not an easy thing to do cuz it's it's such a pressure in the in in these areas to just go by the way things are but you know it's a lot of examples that you could look up to as young kids in the streets you could look up to a you know uh Kendrick Lamar not the words forget what

he's saying just where he came from I seen him you you could YouTube him freestyling the Nicholson garden projects you could look up to a nip hustle you know you could look up to a YG you know what I mean to a a top dog you know what I mean to to any one of these guys that came from this this this hopelessness and and you know wiggled their way through it you know what I mean and you can reverse engineer what they did you know look at the steps what what what happened most important

thing number one is you got to get rid of doubt if you got doubt in what you doing it's not going to work you know what I'm saying and the way to do that is you have a plan cuz if you got a plan it's not like just a pipe dram you have a step by step list of things to do to get to your goal if you don't have that it's very hard to really have faith in what you doing cuz soon as something pop up it's going to look like the end off but

if you got a game plan and everything you need to do you know one thing pop up well I still got to do this this this and that so this thingin going to stop you know what I'm saying another thing pop up I accomplished these two things since my last obstacle I only got three more things to do let me keep pushing it pretty soon you you you attained your goal and then you create another one but without a game plan and without a strong sense of faith in what you doing it's going to be

real hard to accomplish anything and I know you know it's a lot of obstacles out here family baby Mas the legal system trouble with the law you know your homeboy being involved in a in in a crab in the Bucky syndrome where you know I mean you making moves and starting to make your way out and people start trying to attach their sself to you and really become weight you know I'm saying extra weight and sometime it's like kamakazi they blow they self up trying to stop you so you know you just got to you

got to have faith in what you doing and not take no for an answer you'll get it it'll be a long run but you'll get it for sure yeah you can learn from my mistakes but you might have to make them you know what I mean I would just say if you take the quality for me of I mean if you was to take any quality for me take the quality of persistence and staying down you know what I mean and being able to take it on the chin and take a blow you know what

I mean like um yeah that's important you know to not stay on on the ground if you get knocked down and you know what I mean be able to roll the punch it I never been one of the people that could be comfortable being careless some people I I I notice the quality that they don't have that they just don't have the the the the I guess the pressure on their self you know they just have a little bit of a a a comfort that I don't have I don't feel comfortable unless I know I

went above and beyond with my preparation the things that possibly could happen if I ain't take real steps to prevent those things I'm not comfortable I can't walk around around you know charismatic and happy no I got to make sure you know we setting up some type of wealth cuz we might we might have a little bag right now but we know a lot of people had a bag right now and they ended up bad we got a Core Business which is for me music the thing is about building Enterprise around it and I think

you know that's what we see Jay-Z has done that's what we see um puff has done the music don't become how you pay the bills it's a lot of pressure off of it you got other things bringing in income you can make music solely as an artist real everybody got a different definition of what they in the game for I couldn't get my win trying to fit in what I'm what I'm here to try to do I couldn't do that trying to fit in it wouldn't what what my my goal you can't get at the

what what I'm trying to do that way from my understanding of it my experience with it you got to be authentic and you got to you got to Define your you got to make a contribution yeah you know what I mean you can't try to copy right Wes you got to you got to Define your contribution for sure I learned when I was younger like you can't put your expectation of me on me I'm me you feel me and that's you not going to ever make me feel bad for it you're not going to you

know make me react to how you reacting to me I don't care I'm me and if I if I part of who I am you know is disrespectful or you know crossing the line of like basic things I'm going check myself but you know we are are individuals so for you to think my my balance or my ratio I'm too two this and two that and I ain't got enough of this and enough of that that's all love just keep it to yourself bro don't blend in you know stay in your lane there no traffic

in your lane you know what I'm saying be honest and stay in your lane the marathon just about seeing long term seeing a vis understanding that nothing really worthwhile happens overnight and just sticking to your script long enough to make something real happen laying a brick every day instead of trying to build a brick wall just lay a brick every day eventually you look up you have a brick wall I Dro my daughter off every day I driller I every day at school when I take her to school you know I we have a little

combo we had before she got the car she get sick and running the script to me but I pound it in her head like you know uh what is integrity you know Integrity doing the right thing when nobody's looking all right you know are you a leader or follower I'm a leader what's the difference think for myself all right do you have confidence yes what's confidence believe in myself that's our script every morning and regardless she can really Embrace those ideas right now when she get older and do anyue valuation of what the message that

I wanted her to receive direct she not going to forget that that's what my dad thought was really important was the Integrity the the leadership and and uh the confidence there's no one answer to to how you change the hood or change the the the reality of what goes on but what you got to think about is when you don't have resources you in survival mode you know so being in survival mode automatically rules out a lot of things CU you don't care about morality because you don't experience morality you experience you know the need

to survive you don't experience you know fairness you don't experience planning for the future you just experience my ribs touching you know what I mean and it's better me than you and you know it's a survival Instinct that kick in so I think once you get out of the survival mode your your morals come back closer to to your daily decision making you start thinking about what's right what do I believe in but until you get out of survival mode you ain't got time to be woring about right and wrong you worrying about bottom line

you know what I mean by any means necessary so I think that economics is the answer empowering people economically is how you really really impact but I don't know if it's about dropping a bag of money in the hood I think it's about impacting culture in a way that you know the mentality changes I think like you get people out of some survival mode they start thinking different I did you know when I when I figured out you know how to how to get myself out of the situation my approach to life and people was

different I wasn't so angry I didn't have my guard up I wasn't so aggressive I wasn't so you know expecting if you ain't helping me you it wasn't that wasn't the mentality no more and I can't blame nobody you know what I mean that's thinking about how they gonna pay their rent or like going through not having food at the house being young and having to go outside to hustle for for to feed they s with school clothes that's going to change people that's going to make you feel away and you can't fault them you

just got to kind of empathize with the with the scenario and understand you put a a person in in survival mode they going to survive by any means no I was always a hustler so when I talk to a young dude I'm like bro my advice to you is going to be money advice bro get you some money you going to feel different all that other advice I could have gave you this the short version you know get you a couple dollars man you going to feel different you know I be juggling you know what

I'm saying I juggle a lot I play a lot of positions you know what I mean so um my mentality when I when I do start to be like damn this is a lot you know what I'm saying it's just like you know this that's what it's supposed to feel like if if you are going toward what the vision look like and that's like greatness that's you know on multiple levels that's the vision that I'm working toward so I'm like I just think about that like this ain't supposed to feel you know comfortable it's supposed

to be uncomfortable it's supposed to stretch you it's supposed to be a burden to a degree and you got to you know wrap your mind around that and accept it and embrace it then you catch the wisdom off of that you know words is powerful you know and I think that um the ability to articulate you know you could you can you can really impact people I think as human beings everybody has a natural gift and a natural passion but then you go outside and you get influenced and you you feel pressure from from what's

going on outside and so you know I read one time like would you rather be at war with yourself and at peace with the world or at peace with yourself and at war with the world and that was powerful for me