Perspective: Rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle had faith in the music he’d made but an even bigger faith in the people he was making it for. He rapped about the broken America he was trying to fix, Chris__Richards writes.
Rapper Nipsey Hussle performs at the Broccoli City Festival at RFK Stadium in D.C. last April. By Chris Richards Chris Richards Pop music critic Email Bio Follow Pop music critic April 1 at 11:19 AM I remember asking Nipsey Hussle if he was nervous. This was back in 2009 — a soft gray October afternoon on the Howard University quad.
Moments later, he was onstage sneering through his theme song, “Hussle in the House,” inspiring a small clique of euphoric freshmen to flap their Los Angeles Dodgers caps in the air as if they were trying to flag down an airplane. But Nipsey Hussle didn’t become a superstar in the days that followed.
But let’s not forget that every rapper is so much more than a rapper. Nipsey Hussle was a father, a son and a black man whose life was taken in public on a quiet Sunday afternoon in America. His death is unacceptable.
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