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1st April 2019

Rapper Nipsey Hussle dead after a shooting near his Los Angeles clothing store (cnn.com).

Roc Nation: “Our hearts are heavy over the loss of our brother, Nipsey Hussel.”
Rapper Nipsey Hussle died Sunday after a shooting in Los Angeles near a clothing store he owned, according to a high-ranking law enforcement official with the Los Angeles Police Department.

As well as for his music Hussel, a former Crips gang member, was as well as a entrepreneur greatly respected for his community activism:

Hussle had been scheduled to meet with LA Police Commissioner Steve Soboroff and LAPD Chief Michael Moore on Monday to discuss ways to stop gang violence, Soboroff said on Twitter.

And with his celebrity peers expressing their shock and condolences on social media.

Pharrell Williams: “You were about something..positive and for your community in every chance you had to speak…”

RIPNipseyHussle (Instagram).

Updated 3rd April 2019

Eric Holder, man suspected in Nipsey Hussle murder, held on $7M bail (foxla.com).

During a press conference Tuesday, Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore said the fatal shooting involved a personal dispute between Hussle and Holder and was not gang violence.

Updated 11th April 2019

At Nipsey Hussle funeral, music and tears as rapper is ‘sent off like a king’ (nytimes.com).

The majority of mourners at the event were African-American and Latino, largely in their 20s and 30s, many wearing the famous “Crenshaw” shirts that were sold in Hussle’s store. Members of the Eritrean community wore traditional clothing, some adorned with national flags.

But with Stevie Wonder performing:

Before performing at the funeral, the musician Stevie Wonder called for stronger gun regulations. People nodded along in the audience as he spoke.

And tribute from a former president:

Barack Obama Wrote A Letter Paying Tribute To Nipsey Hussle (buzzfeednews.com).

“While most folks look at the Crenshaw neighborhood where he grew up and see only gangs, bullets, and despair, Nipsey saw potential,” Obama wrote in the touching tribute to the Grammy-nominated rapper, who was shot and killed in front of his Los Angeles clothing store, Marathon, on March 31.

“He saw hope,” Obama added.

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