20 of the Best Lyrics From Nipsey Hussle’s ‘Victory Lap’ Album

"Flew to Cancun, smokin' Cubans on the boat/And docked at Tulum just to smoke/Listening to music at the Mayan Ruins/True devotion on the bluest ocean, cruisin'/My cultural influence even rival Lucian/I'm in a greater verdict and y'all niggas blew it/They tell me, 'Hussle dumb it down, you might confuse 'em'/It's like that weirdo rap ya'll motherfuckers used to" —Nipsey Hussle

"Effort, got a L, but got an E for effort/Stretch it, dropped him off in the Mojave Desert and left him/Ain't no answer to these trick questions/Money makin' Nip, straighten out my jewelry on my bitch dresser/Well known, flick up and jail pose/Snatchin' champagne bottles from Ricos til' T show/Whatever, nigga, we playin' chess not checkers, nigga/.38 special for you clever niggas" —Nipsey Hussle

"It was visionary, either I'm genius or you niggas scary/Maybe it's both and this balance I deliver daily/For every nigga in the streets tryna feed the babies/The single mama's workin' hard not to miss a payment/And dirty money get washed on royalty statements/Black owners in this game are powerful racists/Young niggas in the set that's doin' it makeshift/Out the garage is how you end up in charge/That's how you end up in cars" —Nipsey Hussle

"What they call you where you from, nigga?/In my city, that was question number one, nigga/Lookin' at the legend I become, nigga/I can't help, but feeling like I'm the one, nigga/Remember I was on the run, nigga/Well, yeah, before you had a son, nigga/Open up your doors and kept it one with me/Held a nigga down and that was love, nigga/Nobody want to stand in front a judge, nigga/Make you think of better days like when you was winning" —Nipsey Hussle

"I'm a master of my faith, plus I'm the type of nigga own the masters to my tape/I'm in Nevada for the day, I just caught a flight from Philly, we just sold out TLA/Fresh up off of stage on my way to B of A/AMB, we L.A, tryna eat, we the way/Look, young Nips, he the great, never talk/Had a drink, I just lead to the lake/It's 80-something degrees in L.A/Fuck it, time to put some jetskis on the lake/I got a team in my bank, I don't even need an I.D at my bank" —Nipsey Hussle

"I spent my whole life thinkin' out the box/Boxin' homies three-on-one, got DP'ed but I ain't drop/Chirp on me, here I come, brrt, spin around the block/They blurped on me, said I ran a stop sign but that's a lie/I spent my whole life starin' at the stage/Playin' Sega, daddy smokin' sherm, mama playin' spades/Catchin' vapors, grandma said I'd get some Jordans for my grades/That's my baby, when she died my heart broke a hundred ways" —Kendrick Lamar

"This ain't entertainment, it's for niggas on the slave ship/These songs just the spirituals I swam against them waves wit/Ended up on shore to their amazement/I hope the example I set's not contagious/Lock us behind gates but can't tame us/Used to be stay safe, now it's stay dangerous/'Cause ain't no point in playin' defense nigga/That's why I dove off the deep end nigga, without a life jacket/Couple mil, tour the world, now my life crackin'/Cook the books, bring it back so it's no taxes" —Nipsey Hussle

"See your blood leakin', got my foot on this gas/Tossed the .40, we pull up to Daniel free and see CRASH/You know the alibi, they started shootin', we was standin' by/Ain't see nothing, but the flare from the talons fly/"I wasn't there, I was passin' by"/Matter fact, don't say shit, I'm just gon' drop you in the back and slide/That's yo weed, all the cash is mine/I took 'em both to the spot plus your phone til you back online" —Nipsey Hussle

"Pull up in motorcades, I got a show today/It's all I'm tryna do, hustle and motivate/Choppers a throwaway, hustle the Hova way/That's why they follow me, huh, they think I know the way/'Cause I took control of things, ballin' the solo way/And if you counter my trend, I make you my protégé/Slauson Ave. soldier race, niggas don't know them days/Take you in back of the buildings, make you expose your age" —Nipsey Hussle

"Hit by the rules like a fuckin' ref/I got respect in like a hundred sets/Too many chains, need another chest/Playin' no games if it wasn't chess/Cut from that cloth that you couldn't stretch/Cut from that circle you couldn't test/Heavily pressured and under stressed, even though niggas ain't show up, it was a mess/Honest as Tip playing to the left/Judge a young nigga by they address/Left us no option, what they expect/Only thing we knew for sure was to bang the set" —Nipsey Hussle

"Just wanna feel the thrust, wanna feel the texture/Wanna feel the drop top breeze, wanna feel successful/Wanna change the game, never chase a message/Never stop grindin', cherish no possessions/We ain't get accepted, we just reinvested/Things that I expected 'cause we ain't even set trip/60th to Megan, choppers for protection/FBI invests us, but they can't arrest us" —Nipsey Hussle

"Oh ya'll bloods, oh ya'll crips now/Fuck it, I'm big draws, I'm J. Prince now/I frontline wars we can't fix now/Bought latex gloves, that's no prints now/If you broke bread, you got chip now/Couple things you can't buy inside this town/Loyalty, love, and respect/And niggas will extort you out your check" —Nipsey Hussle

"Niggas died, niggas disappear, alibis, I was really there/Life of crime till I get the chair, Columbine in my trigger hair/Still I rise and I took the stairs/Feel the fire, it's a different glare/All these fights, it was never fair, bustin' knuckles till I'm swingin' fierce/Face is swollen, some I'm drippin' tears, you should know I never had a fear/You should know I never had a shot, never had a chance, still I took it here/Manage pride but I see it clear, strategize, I'm a engineer/Pick a side, gotta keep it there, switchin' up nigga, lookin' weird" —Nipsey Hussle

"I'm married to the game, that's who I made my wife/Said I die alone, I told that bitch she probably right/One thing that's for sure, not a stranger to this life/Got a safe that's full of Franklins and a shoulder full of stripes/I don't know a nigga like myself/I say self-made, meanin' I designed myself/County jail fades, you can pull my file yourself/Spot raids, swallow rocks, I'm gettin' high myself" —Nipsey Hussle

"Can't be actin' like a bitch tryna get saved, bruh/Get that dirt up off your shoulder, step yo game up/Can't be chasin' pussy, switch your ways up/Can't be fuckin' off your lucci, gotta save up/See you gon' probably fail tryna play us/Streets ain't for everybody, get your grades up/Ain't 'bout your money, you just lookin' for a stage, huh?/And all that stuntin' put a bullet in your brain, huh?" —Nipsey Hussle

"My dough inflated and I'm more creative/Signed a couple big deals, but it's no parading/See it's a couple niggas every generation/I wasn't supposed to make it out, but decode the Matrix/And when they get to speak, it's like a coded language/Reminds niggas it ain't strength in all this stolen greatness/We used to shoot at niggas' at the Mobil station/Full circle, mogul motivation" —Nipsey Hussle

"Look, I was sittin' on my Lincoln, I start thinkin'/Nigga, I ain't gon' make a hundred mil' off in these streets and/More than likely I'm gon' end up in somebody's precinct/Even worse, horse and carriage, front the church, laid off in a hearse/I dealt with it/I ain't just out here for my health with it/I weighted risk and the reward and seen the scale tippin'/Let's all get on one accord and take the world niggas/Take the money, take the power and the girls with us" —Nipsey Hussle

"High school, didn't go/Couldn't understand my plan, now you niggas know/Self made, well paid/I'm from where they tell you never touch the shell case/I'm from where they teach you never trust a pale face/Talk bangin', I can tell you 'bout a field race/Real shit, real shit, I know all my real niggas feel this/Night time, locs on/Fuckin' young bitches while they folks home" —Nipsey Hussle

"My new shit sound like it's Soul Train, Tookie Williams over Coltrane/Eric B by the rope chain, RSC we fo' sho bang/Tiny locs and they go crazy, what you know about the dope game?/Was you born in the '80s? Did your mama smoke cocaine?/Have you ever seen a whole thang?/What you drove through to the streets/'Cause you grew up on short change" —Nipsey Hussle

"I rose from a Regal, Auroras and Lincoln's/Low-pros on Alpina's, to German drop top two-seaters/Was young and prestigious, phone was matchin' my beeper/'How the fuck you 'gon reach him?', he makin' more than his teachers/Movin' forward with speed, all your morals'll leave/Only focus is cheese, now the forest is trees/Got infected with greed, distort what you see/Your worst nightmare than me, is justifyin' your means" —Nipsey Hussle