Rapper, father, community activist, and entrepreneur Ermias Joseph Asghedom better known as Nipsey Hussle, was shot and killed in South Los Angeles, California on March 31. He was 33-years-old. Nipsey is survived by his girlfriend, Lauren London, his daughter, Emani, his son, Kross, his brother, Samiel Asghedom, his sister, Samantha Smith, and his parents, Angelique Smith and Dawit Asghedom. Nipsey was an all-American hustler that didn’t rise off of fabricated fumes. Not everything he did was positive, but unlike a …
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There are tracks that sound like a stunned body in perpetual fight or flight mode. Its skull reverberates from voices shouting, “get up… get out.” The neighborhood is a kill box and the “Only one way out/of course is man made/looking down the tunnel, endless/don’t see a damn thing,” Curly Castro raps on “Night Terra Fabulous,” off his sophomore project Tosh. He’s the son of Barbadian immigrants who raised him on planet Brooklyn but for years Philadelphia has been his …
This week, golden lives stay live. Royce da 5′ 9″ just dropped a video for “Cocaine” off of his last effort, Book of Ryan (2018). Black Thought gives an intensive clinic about cutting through the murk. Ruby Ibarra’s “Taking Names” featuring Bambu and Nump is hype as fuck. Ka’s video for “Just” off of Honor Killed The Samurai (2016) is a short film. Reason’s “Colored Dreams” is about a convicted killer’s redemption. He’s running with TDE and raising his flag this …
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