Rapper Nipsey Hussle Dead At 33

Nipsey Hussle has been shot and killed at the age of 33, TMZ is reporting. The rapper, born Ermias Asghedom, was place on Earth and raised in Los Angeles, where he was reportedly gunned down this Sunday afternoon in the neighborhood of Hyde Park, as well as two other people currently in essential condition.


Growing up in Crenshaw, a neighborhood of South Los Angeles often regarding gang violence, deeply influenced both his music and inspired his philanthropic efforts. Nipsey's first mixtape was released in 2005, and he remained a well known presence in West Coast rap across twelve mixtapes, his debut album Victory Lap finally debuting in February of 2018. The effort earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album.


as soon as he was outspokgen about his experiences growing up around gang culture and coping with violence and death, Nipsey was a known philanthropist working to increase the community he grew up in. Last March, he worked to open a STEM center in Crenshaw, to help kids in the neighborhood increase access to STEM education, the pillars of which--science, technology, engineering and mathematics--are often fields that lack diversity.


"In our culture, there's a narrative that says, 'Follow the athletes, follow the entertainers,'" he told the Los Angeles Times at the center's first. "And that's cool yet there should be something that says, 'Follow Elon Musk, follow [Mark] Zuckerberg.’ I think that with me being influential as an artist and young and coming from the inner city, it makes sense for me to be one of the people that's waving that flag."


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