Gaye Theresa Johnson, an associate professor at the departments of African American Studies and Chicano and Chicana Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that the area’s segregation from the rest of the metropolis was cemented through the barriers of that most L.A. South Los Angeles is a sprawling cluster of neighborhoods, many of them rich with African-American history, that are staring down major changes. “I think his message was incredibly important because he was from the 'hood, he stayed in the 'hood, he gave back to the 'hood and he was working to kind of rebuild the 'hood,” Kamlager-Dove said. State Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager-Dove, whose district includes the areas in South Los Angeles where Hussle was raised and invested, credited him with spurring upwardly-mobile residents and investors to stay in the community rather than leave for neighboring middle-class enclaves. He also co-founded a nearby co-working space called Vector 90, which had the goal of increasing diversity in the math and sciences.
Hussle - born Ermias Asghedom - and a business partner had purchased the shopping center on Slausson Avenue.
“For a 63-year-old man to see a youngster with tats all on his face and that rap stuff,” said Dillon, “and to look up to him, that meant a lot to me.” 'From the 'hood' He said he admired the rapper despite being three decades his senior. “Everything!” said 17-year-old Kyla Rose, in unison with a group of fellow students from View Park Preparatory High School around the corner from where Hussle was shot, when asked what he meant to the neighboring community.Ĭharles Dillon, who said he had served time in prison as a younger man, was inspired by Hussle’s own trajectory of reform from affiliate of the local Crips set to local businessowner. They described him as having been a figure of hope and pride for reinvesting in a neighborhood under pressure from both internal strife and outside developers. In the days following Nipsey Hussle’s murder outside of The Marathon Clothing, the store he ran in a plaza purchased earlier this year, the rapper’s name was on the lips of teenagers and senior citizens alike for miles around. He then watched Hussle get carted into an ambulance. On March 31, Brown was pulling into the ministry when he heard gunshots next door.
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