Hundreds in LA's Eritrean community remember Nipsey Hussle
by Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times
Apr 08, 2019
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - To the world, he was Nipsey Hussle, the rapper, activist and entrepreneur whose "Victory Lap" album earned a Grammy nomination.
But for the hundreds of people who gathered Sunday at the Medhani-Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church in South Los Angeles to remember him, he was known first as Ermias.
It was the name that punctuated the sonorous prayers in Ge'ez and Tigrinya, that hung in the air fragrant with incense, that was murmured between songs in
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