Nipsey Hussle had only just hit full stride in the race when he was taken out of the game.
Nipsey Hussle's hearse passes through a huge throng Thursday near his his clothing store on Slauson Avenue. Nipsey Hussle wonders on “Dedication,” a single from his 2018 album featuring Kendrick Lamar.
You could see it all over his face Grammy weekend —that glow of having hit a benchmark in an industry he’d been navigating for over a dozen years, to varying degrees of success, before “Victory Lap” put him on wider radars and showed the world someone who, in his own words, “came from nothing to having it all.
Hussle’s voice echoed across the arena to tears and rapturous cheers, many abandoning the no-video rule to pull out cellphones to film the moment. Who can blame them? It started to feel like a headlining concert and not a funeral. Eritrean flags waved high – the audience was shown footage of Hussle returning to his father’s birthplace – and members of the community were dressed in beautiful habesha kemis, the traditional garments worn by Habesha women. It was also probably the first time Staples Center saw that many shades of Crip blue in the audience.
Hussle, like Snoop Dogg before him, used his music, influence and community work to denounce gun violence without ever condemning active gang members. He knew what gang injunctions were doing to his hood and he spoke out about it, but he also knew the realities of gang violence and how that stigma followed anyone who ever joined a set.
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