Monday, April 8, 2019 10:42 am
Late rapper, Nipsey Hussle
(Source: IG)
The public memorial service
for late slain rapper, Nipsey Hussle will be held at Staples Centre on
Thursday.
His family reportedly chose
the 21,000 seat venue to accommodate a massive crowd that will be attending.
The Los Angeles rapper,
whose real name was Ermias Davidson Asghedom was one of three men shot outside
his clothing store in the Hyde Park neighborhood of LA.
He was pronounced dead at
the hospital, while the other two men are in stable condition.
A 29-year old suspect, Eric
Holder, who allegedly carried out the fatally shooting on Hussle has been
arrested.
Holder is currently being
held in solitary confinement, where he would be all alone and would not be
allowed to mingle with the general population because they believed he is a
target.
NAN reports that Nipsey was
outspoken about his experience with street violence and described growing up in
gang culture in his Crenshaw neighbourhood of south Los Angeles as “living in a
war zone.”
Those struggles informed
his music but also his philanthropy, particularly in Crenshaw where he is revered
as a hero and pillar of the community.
In 2018, Nipsey launched
his ‘Too Big to Fail” initiative in collaboration with Vector 90, a STEM centre
and co-working space for youth in the Crenshaw district that serves as a bridge
between the inner cities and Silicon Valley.
He opened the centre a day
before the release of his Grammy-nominated 16-song debut album, Victory Lap.
The hip hop star envisioned
expanding the Vector 90 project beyond LA to other cities across the U.S.,
including Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Atlanta, where kids from inner cities
could explore alternative paths to success.
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