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“Yes, it's rap and its hip hop," said Peniche, "but if you were to put it into its own genre, it's Marathon Music. From 2010 forward, that was kind of the philosophy or the mindset that we had, like, 'We're gonna create Marathon Music'...music that not only inspires but educates.”
― Rob Kenner, The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

“As a youngster he n ever respected people that made it and left... It was much bigger for him. It wasn't, 'I'ma get some money and leave.' It was "I'ma achieve my goals and bring things that's bigger than music. I'm gonna be at the forefront of a movement.”
― Rob Kenner, The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

“Hussle considered making music to be a spiritual process. "Anybody that fuck with music long enough - if you don't cloud yourself and miss it - you gonna realize it's spiritual." he said. "If you in tune and you're present enough, it's vibrations, it's the word. So the power of the word is intense. It's real.”
― Rob Kenner, The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

“At any given moment one car could drive up the block and turn an ordinary night into a nightmare. When the shots start to fly, nobody knows who the slugs will catch. It was a hell of a way to live, but at least Hussle could release the stress through his music. He recorded a song at ButterVision about some of his experiences in the field called 'Bullets Ain't Got No Names.' The play-by-play was like a flashback from a war movie, except this wasn't Vietnam or Afghanistan, it was daily life in a major American city. (P141)”
― Rob Kenner, The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

“When Justin joined the high school football team as a freshman, he estimates that half the team were Crips, and half Bloods. 'I've had multiple teammates who got shot,' he says. 'It shouldn't be normal,' he says, but repeated experience has a way of normalizing extreme situations. (P109)”
― Rob Kenner, The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle

“When Justin joined the high school football team as a freshman, he estimates that half the team were Crips, and half Bloods. 'I've had multiple teammates who got shot,' he says. 'It shouldn't be normal,' he says, but repeated experience has a way of normalizing extreme situations.”
― Rob Kenner, The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle