Latest Release
- JUL 5, 2024
- 1 Song
- Racks in the Middle (feat. Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy) - Single · 2019
- Victory Lap · 2018
- Victory Lap · 2019
- Victory Lap · 2018
- Victory Lap · 2018
- Victory Lap · 2018
- Victory Lap · 2018
- Victory Lap · 2018
- Crenshaw · 2013
- The Marathon · 2010
Essential Albums
- From the time he broke in 2008, Nipsey Hussle was one of the West Coast’s brightest hopes for a post-Snoop Dogg superstar. Though he'd go on to deliver numerous classic street-level projects in the time since, Victory Lap is officially billed as Hussle’s debut. The album is rife with the neo-G-funk sound that made his name (“Last Time That I Checc’d,” “Dedication”) as well as the platforms he's most proud of: turf-life activism and black business advocacy (“Young N***a,” “Million While You Young”). The clout of guests like Puff Daddy, Kendrick Lamar, and Cee-Lo Green is not to be understated, but Hussle’s collaborators, no matter their own fame, understand his importance.
Artist Playlists
- L.A.'s flinty, uncompromising truth-teller.
More To Hear
- Five years ago today, Los Angeles lost a hometown hero.
- Victory Lap takes its fifth stride across the finish line.
- We're doing this one for Nipsey Hussle… 🏁
- The late Los Angeles MC remembered through his finest tracks.
- Throwing back to the Los Angeles MC's first mixtapes.
About Nipsey Hussle
Just 10 days after Ermias "Nipsey Hussle" Asghdeom was shot and killed in 2019, the Los Angeles intersection of West Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard was renamed in his honor, a fitting commemoration for the late rapper who invested—emotionally and financially—in his area. After the triumph of his now-hauntingly titled studio debut, 2018’s Victory Lap, Hussle didn’t leave for the safe confines of Calabasas. Instead, he started a coworking space in Crenshaw’s commercial district, alongside his store, Marathon Clothing. Hussle wasn’t new to business: He approached his neo-G-funk rap with industry savvy, too, dominating L.A.’s mixtape circuit by selling his in-demand 2013 tape, Crenshaw, for $100 apiece long before artists like Mach-Hommy and Westside Gunn sold their art at such prices. It also helped that JAY Z bought 100 copies himself. On “Dedication,” which finds both Hussle and Kendrick Lamar aggressively touting their L.A. bona fides over rumbling synths, Hussle rapped, “Royalties, publishing, plus I own masters/I'll be damned if I slave for some white crackers.” Nipsey Hussle had a plan for his post-Victory Lap career, one that would reinvent the relationship between a musician and his community. “It’s been a helluva wait. I want to really deliver music,” he explained to Apple Music in February of 2018. “I want the story to be music for the next five, six years.” While this vision was stolen from him far too early, his dreams of a revitalized Crenshaw live on—the marathon continues.
- HOMETOWN
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- BORN
- August 15, 1985
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap