What do people mean when they say they hustle??

Question

Like, I know about pool hustling, and hustling in sports like basketball (i.e. white men can't jump).

But what kind of hustling do the rappers talk about? Like when they say stuff like "Everyday I'm hustlin" ...?

ok, well drugs is an obvious one lol. I knew that. But I mean what else is there besides like drugs and games like throwin dice? Do they just mean a generic form of making money illegally?

Answer 1

Anything illegal to make fast money.
Could mean dealing drugs, gambling, pimping or prostituting, stealing/shoplifting, or even smaller things like braiding/styling hair without a license or bumming money off other people.

Answer 2

It's either tricking someone or there is a dance called the hustle.

Answer 3

In the rap music context, "hustling" refers to aggressive, illegal efforts to snag $$$$--be such efforts made in illegal drug sales, "managing" prostitutes, robbing people or businesses.....or even the clever street con games.

Rappers have it in their heads being born black already did them in; the world has NO opportunities for them--so they go "gansta" and do what they got to do. Rappers also feel weilding the gun and becomming an over-looming threat towards others demands respect. Little wonder why when they actually live out the rap songs they so much love.....they wind up in prison or dead.

Answer 4

Many mean selling drugs, e.g. coke, crack, heroin. Others simply mean the act of getting money, whether legally (selling music, etc.) or illegally (selling stolen goods, etc.).

Click this link to see the definitions listed in Urban Dictionary. It might help with other words as well.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hustle

Answer 5

Makin dat guap soup.

in plain terms......

it means you are making money by your own means. It does't have to be illegal. You could be selling oranges on the highway and be hustle. Like I said it is just making money by your own means(without a 9-5).

Answer 6

being out making that money and its NOT always about selling drugs ya don't really have to hustle to sell drugs, drugs sell themselves, even at 4 o'clock in tha morning

Answer 7

Either moving fast, or hustling in the sense of pool hustling - cheating and conniving.

Answer 8

Struggling to make money or make a living.
Not necessarily selling drugs, trying to make money to get by.

Answer 9

They selling drugs, or doin something to get fast money

Answer 10

it means that they got some stuff goin on, some side deals, some way to make a buck, some way to get ahead.