Nipsey Hussle’s Death Amplifies His Commitment to Activism
As he rose to global fame, the rapper, now dead at 33, kept his focus on his L.A. community.
Updated at 1:27 p.m. ET on April 2, 2019.
Hip-hop is a phenomenon of global scale, building cross-hemispherical legends with the ease of a SoundCloud upload, and it was on those terms that the 33-year-old rapper Nipsey Hussle had risen to power. He’d collaborated with superstars such as Drake and Kendrick Lamar; he co-wrote “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump),” signature protest song. After a string of mixtape releases beginning in 2005, his 2018 debut album arrived at No. 4 on the
