Anderson .Paak loves L.A. What does he do when it stops loving him back?
LOS ANGELES - It's rare to find Anderson .Paak without a wide smile plastered across his face. He's the type who barrels into a room with abundant gusto, his entrance typically punctuated with a shriek of his catchphrase - "Yes, Lawd!" - delivered like a preacher shouting from the pulpit.
But today, that toothy grin is hard to come by when he arrives at the two-story North Hollywood lair housing his studio and office.
No sooner had he returned home from a gig in Austria, where he wrapped his Andy's Beach Club tour, than he got word that Nipsey Hussle had been killed in front of his South L.A. clothing store. Still raw from his friend Mac Miller's death seven months ago - a large portrait of the rapper rests in one room - the loss of another peer has left him shaken.
"Los Angeles got me a
