It’s because the corporate structure of their companies would not allow ownership. And it’s not because the people at the label didn’t want to help me. They wanted to give me all this money up front but I’m like, keep the money. I told them keep the check, give me an asset and just market and distribute my shit,” Nipsey said in an interview with Complex in 2013. “I realized that the structure of these companies aren’t built to give me any type of ownership. Nipsey, who was signed to Epic earlier in his career, still felt salty about the deals available to a rapper like him - one who built his buzz from the ground up: “Victory Lap coming soon” became a rallying call for fans. And Victory Lap would be Nipsey’s official debut the album would keep getting pushed back until he had the right label situation. South Central State of Mind got scrubbed. Nipsey told Forbes last year that in his younger days he had been influenced by “ignorance and self-destructiveness in the narrative that was pushed on us through music in our generation.And then life happened. and other underserved neighborhoods all over the country. There were plans to open more in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Washington, D.C.
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Nipsey was also an investor in Vector90, a professional co-working space in Crenshaw which he described as a “bridge between Silicon Valley and the inner city” that would also include STEM classes. I look at it like these niggas is totally out of character,” he told Complex in a 2010 interview.īut in recent years, Nipsey had become heavily involved in the community, most recently investing in the new Destination Crenshaw arts project, a 1.3-mile-long “outdoor art and culture experience celebrating Black Los Angeles.” So like I said, it’s an overstanding I got about it.
I know in the real world in this shit, a lot of niggas wouldn’t make it. Your homies gonna hear about it, beat you up, kick you in your ass, and you was for nothin’. But I’m just saying on some gangbang shit, when you go to the county jail and you walk in the court tank and it’s 50 of your enemies, you still gonna say the 60s (Rollin 60 Neighborhood Crips). I got respect for they movement and I like the dude as an artist. When 40-Glocc and them run up on you, you still a Blood. “When you around 100 Crips, you still a Blood. Hussle has long been associated with the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips, one of Los Angeles’ largest street gangs. Gang But Had Recently Turned Into A Community Organizer There were posts on Twitter from Sunday’s crime scene and after the shooting, a crowd gathered to pay tribute to the late musician.Ī post shared by Alex Medina on at 2:08pm PDTĢ. No other details of their identities have been released. One of the other men in the incident was being treated at a nearby hospital, and the third man declined treatment, Los Angeles Police Department Lt. After approaching Nipsey and his crew and firing shots, he ran away to a nearby waiting getaway vehicle. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office said Monday that he died of a gunshot wound to the head.Īccording to TMZ, the shooting was personally directed at Nipsey and the suspect that law enforcement is looking for is a black male in his 20s. Hussle was shot multiple times and then rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. local time in the parking lot at Marathon Clothing on West Slauson Avenue in South Los Angeles’ Hyde Park. The shooting was reported around 3:20 p.m. Nipsey Was Shot Multiple Times Outside The Clothing Store He Opened In Crenshaw
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