“Nipsey Hussle” – real name, Ermias Davidson Asghedom – was killed this weekend in Los Angeles. He was shot to death near a clothing store he owned. As I write this, no suspects have named or taken into custody.
Apparently a great many people in the entertainment world – certainly in the “rap” world – are distraught over his death.
Personally, I’m sorry he was shot. But do I really mourn for a tattoo-laden ‘gangsta-thug” type whose lyrics, if you can call them lyrics are laden with profanity and racism?
Want just one example of many? Here are partial lyrics from his “song”, titled “Dedication”:
Lovely. What a wonderful, uplifting message to the young Black people he was singing to/about.
And how nice of mainstream media never to talk about the ugliness of “rap” lyrics from people like this – Hillary-supporting Jay-Z is a major offender as well – even as they lie about Trump calling nazis and White supremacists “very fine people” (read the transcript – he did no such thing). What a wonderful service they are doing to Black communities by giving people like this a free pass on their messages.
Let me say, again, that I certainly did not wish death on Ashghedom/”Hussle”. I’m sorry he was shot.
But will I miss him? Mourn him? No.
What I miss, and mourn, are media that at least try to talk honestly about people who sell what he was selling, to the vulnerable people he was selling it to.
Could Rap be why it seems so many black people hate white people???
Did you see this at Drudge?
I did and at first glance I read it as Nipsey Russell.