Like many of Nipsey Hussle’s peers, The Game was an emotional wreck on Sunday (March 31) after the Grammy Award-nominated rapper was shot and killed outside of his Los Angeles clothing store.
Around 4 a.m. local time, The Game hopped in his car and drove down Slauson Avenue, the same street where Nipsey was gunned down. During the drive, the audibly distraught veteran rapper recorded an Instagram Live video and broke down.
“Over here driving down Slauson, driving down Slauson, 4 in the morning ’cause I can’t sleep affer finding out what happened to Nip, man,” he says. “Why niggas do the homie like that? In his own muthafuckin’ shop? In his own hood? Just trying to do good for nigga. This shit crazy, man. I can’t even fuckin’ sleep.
“I’m disgusted by shit. That’s how y’all do the homie? In his own city? In his own hood? His own place of business? That’s how niggas do niggas? L.A. on some bullshit!”
The Game’s sentiments didn’t end there. He also penned a poignant tribute to Nip on his Instagram page. He talked about the first time they met and revealed they’d just spoken on the phone the night before his murder.
“Rolled down my window 12 years ago on Crenshaw & Slauson as you handed me your demo & said ‘Chuck, don’t frisbee my shit homie… give a young nigga a ear.’ From that day to letting you open up for me on tour & us going around the world together, creating a bond & watching your growth to today…… Murdered my friend in front of his own store on a Sunday at that !!!
“After just talking to you on the phone just last night about the Dr. Sebi documentary, family, the kids & how we were both bout to f&$k the summer up with this music, the world loses a true king. A man that was truly about everything he spoke & stood up for all that he believed in.”
As The Game continued, he expressed the shock he was feeling.
“I keep seeing your name in these headlines bro, but it seems unreal to me…. like, I just cannot believe you gone !!!! ” he added. “I love you….. I’m really broken & saddened by the fact they did this to you SMMFH !!!!! I can only imagine what your family is going through right now… This was not how your life on earth was supposed to end !!!!!!!! They don’t even make friends like you no more…… @nipseyhussle & in LA, at his own store ?!?!?
“A store & business he put there for his people ?!?!? Los Angeles, how we let this happen ?!?!?!?!? I’m ashamed of you right now !!!!! Can’t even live out ya whole life in this city no more… this shit right here is just krazy to me !!!!!!!!!!!! #RestInPeaceNip can’t even fuckin believe it’s actually your name attached to all these REST IN PEACE posts !!!!! SMFH.”
Nip was shot at least six times. Emergency responders attempted to do CPR on him before rushing him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Two other people were also shot and are currently in the hospital.
No arrests have been made yet.
I thought Game was supposed to be a tough guy lol
I’ll be sure to enrol at Thug Skool. Appreciate the advice.
Why would Blood have love for CUZ? Real men don’t show heart and real G’s don’t shed over enemies. That’s just G code.
63rd and Carson Ave. Hill top Hustlers!!
Yeah man it keeps piling up on us…we are killing our own kind right in our own neighborhoods…no fucking reason to continue with this nonsense. If you’re gonna be a gangster, these are the very possible consequences…Mafioso and mobsters know this is the consequence, so hey man we need to realize this shit and either stop it or stop complaining
A negative (gang life) plus a positive (uplifting black community) always equals negative (haters wishing death). Ppl you can’t try to be on both sides of the fence. You have to give up something. NIP was trying to do great things for his community but you can’t do that and scream naybahood while those in that exact hood have way less looking at you like lunch meat. I really feel sad for NIPSEY and his family but life is about choices. Maybe the documentary had something to with his death . Who knows but if you get any type of money just move out the hood. You can still help from a distance
That’s sad part about it. You have someone who made it out…came back…helped the community…and got murdered. Now let’s say he didn’t come back, then he’d be talked about like a piece of shit. ‘Oh, he don’t keep it real’…You can’t even go back to help anymore b/c there will always be a crab mentality type of person looking to hold and or bring you down. Its fucked up all the way round.
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You don’t get it dude. And I’m only responding to you because I see your comments about Jesus and stuff and you don’t come of as a cunt. The problem is, some people choose the gang life like lil Wayne, Chris brown and shit. They weren’t born into it and are just obsessed with the life because they don’t face its reality everyday. I grew up in LA with about 60 people in a building. It was controlled by the nutty blocc. When you on your way from school, these gang bangers sometimes will send you on errands to corner stores and hand you 20 dollars upon return. When you are 14 and below, it’s easy to be convinced when all your cousins and friends are turning to it. It’s only education that save a few and sports as well. And we that went to college had no respect from some of them so if you are easily convinced and want to impress, you may fall. They will take care of you initially and you’ll think that’s family.
Yep, I do try to get across to people that LA inner city has a gang culture. It’s like an accent or some shit how it’s ingrained in the culture. Albuquerque is deep with the gang culture like that too. If you haven’t been there before, it doesn’t make sense to you, but people in it understand what’s up, and all of that shit was a response to the government and corporations straight up abandoning these people for decades and decades. Like totally give a fuck more about protecting animals than doing shit for these communities while people were and still are outright starving. Italians with their mobbed up culture are another side of the same coin, but you don’t hear people talk down on them like that, and no businesses and government deserted their communities in mass like they did these inner cities. On the contrary, people glorify their shit.
I’m trying to understand the logistics here. You drivin at 4am down the street. Feel sad and want to express yourself so you grab your phone with one hand and start filming shit while you drivin? Tryin to picture the scene here. Dudes are gettin murdered on that very same street you drivin down. I’m sure you ridin in somethin new and clean. Where the hammer at? The goons in the whip wit you staying super quiet while you pour your heart out? They followin behind in another car? Stop promotin your locations rich people. Don’t care how much of a ganster you are. There’s somebody harder than you and starvin waitin for an opportunity like this. Stay safe Game.
Yes ! Shame on LA if they allow this man to get away with this. Shame on you. You did this to BIG and now to Nip. If it was gang related was your petty little beef over a piece of land you dont even OWN worth taking this mans life?
I hope Nipsey rest in eternal peace.That being said for Game to be in disbelief when all of his records and I mean every single one of them has been glorifying violence and gang culture is just plain stupid.This man made a sincere attempt to better himself and his community but as long as you keep ties to any sets and flags you will always be in danger.The Game can say whatever he wants but he has a hand in his death by promoting that lifestyle to millions of impressionable listeners who want to be taken seriously and willing to do whatever to prove it.
Apparently you knew Nipsey Hussle at all it had nothing to do with gangs or anything like that do your homework buddy if I were you I would not speak about something I apparently know nothing about and the game is not someone you want to sit around and Bash or talk about and you get your facts straight then you post but until then be careful about what you say
You sound real ignorant right now. The only one promoting negativity is you. Regardless of what kind of music The Game performed, Nipsey was his friend. There was no way The Game contributed to his murder because Nipsey was taken out by the government who can fund such an assasination on such a promising black man. A black man that was promoting living healthy and healing for the people. The government does not want black people to be healthy. Leave The Game alone he is grieving. Stop being evil and hateful. Nipsey wouldn’t have liked that.
Game has promoted Black savagery and genocidal gang culture for years and years so yes he helped create an environment for Nipsey’s homicide. This dude with the fake outrage stays name dropping for attention. Game with the fake outrage and crocodile tears as usual…
You sound ridiculously uninformed and uneducated.People always wanna create a boogeyman cause it’s easier to comprehend that another black man did a scumbag move and killed his own.So yeah make up this conspiracy to make it easier for u to digest and process.You get what you put out into this universe.You cant spread poison and believe it wont find it’s way to you eventually.Rest in peace Nipsey and I hope this is a wakeup call for anybody that chooses that life.Its a dead end.Nipsey saw it and tried to better himself and the world and for that reason he will be welcomed to heaven with open arms and will be respected forever.Just because you’re a stan of Game does not give him a free pass.How many incidents has he put himself and others in danger with that Gangsta Sh*t?The shooting at hot 97.beefin with 40 glocc.Slappin a cop playing ball.The sexual assault he was accused of.Beefing with how many rappers over the years sending threats through your headphones but he a positive and good energy?Foh…Hopefully he did what Nipsey started too and sees that gangsta sh*t will never benefit you or his team.
We gotta stop making music about violence and supporting violence in our communities. In both cases, we are destroying ourselves. I’m sick of it. No other genre has more artists murdered than in hip hop.
Yep, that’s what did it. His musical content. SMH. I wonder why all of those people in the crack rock 80s era were killing each other though when all of the music back then was happy talk and about dancing. But don’t mind logic though, let’s blame something that has nothing to do with anything.
You’re obviously not seeing the real problem either since you gloss over why those places are like that. Go back to the 50s and 60s when those same places were vibrant full of economically climbing black neighborhoods and ask yourself what changed when businesses left to save a few bucks and moved to more tax friendly locations and then in the 80s your own government dropped crack rock in the middle of them after they had already been devastated by the lost jobs. But yep, let’s just focus on the part of this equation that has no power. Sounds logical. I can’t wait for this to happen to rural white America in a few more years as the heroin/opioid epidemic coupled with the jobs going to China turns into this because I’m going to laugh and laugh and laugh. I want to see how many people blame them solely for what happens to them. Oh, weait they already blame everybody but them for why they’re junkies in the first place, so I won’t hold my breath.
They did him for the same reason you chased down 40glocc and beat him with one hand and recorded with the other the macho man bullshit superiority complex that oh if you disprespect me i gotta kill ya or disrespect you publicly because of my image as some “killer” on my records and enforce that mentality in all your listeners and make a buncha savages who think that clout is more important than life shits pathetic
Its simple Game, do whatever you can to separate yourself from gang life. Encourage the youth, that this isn’t the way life should be. Do whatever you can to promote anti gang affiliation. Something has to give. To my fellow black men, we do indeed have a problem. For years violence has wrecked havoc on communities around the country. Its not a myth, shit needs to stop. If you’re still gang banging, instead of getting involved with positive organizations, then YOU, are a part of the problem. Don’t throw accountability/responsibility no one else’s way. Take ownership, and help in whatever way you can. Our future kind of actually depends on it. Rest In Power Nip.
What’s the real problem homie
YOU ARE SO WOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who cares,atleast he would probably work better as fertilizer than as a rapper.
Why do you hate on a man that tried to do good by his community? He invested in his people and this is how they repay him? He wanted to further his people by showing them that he was raised in the hood but came out on top as a business man. I respect this man his music was top notch but his devotion to show others a different path and wanting to better people is what won me over. I hope you got your satisfaction of trolling behind closed blinds. But remember this you are doing it at the cost of a dead man that can’t respond. Coward.
Nips done a lot of damage to his “beloved neighborhood”. He sold drugs to his peeps. How many lives did he help destroy? He was a Crip gang member until the end. How many did he help kill? Yeah, he tried to change all that in his last years, but it doesn’t change who he was or the damage he done. Don’t glorify this dude. He’s just a gangster that got shot.
And you’re just a coward with a keyboard.
That takes nut shots to the face on the reg
Yep, you have the real problem but never once mentioned the corporations that deserted these communities decades ago and left them to fend for themselves or the government that spits on them and said not only won’t we do shit to help you but said here, we got this crack rock shit we’ll drop over in there. Two entities with power, but you’re focused on the one part of the equation with none. Sounds logical to me. Hope it’s never a drought in this country while the government and utility companies turn off the faucets. Some of you dumb fools will blame the thirsty people looking for water solely for not having anything to drink and exonerate the more important parts of why that is.
this is definition of doublé standars
I stated in a previous post that I wasn’t a fan of Nipsey Hussle but I wasn’t a b/c I didn’t like his material, I wasn’t a fan b/c I never made the time to listen to his material. I knew he’d been in the industry for a minute, so I knew of him just never sat down and listened to him. I just listened to his music for the first time today. My lil cousin in LA sent me some tracks and I must say I slept on Nipsey Hussle. I’m in no way sayin’ he was an angel but I have so much respect for the work he did in his community. This shit had me fucked up all day honestly. How do you kill Biggie? How do you kill Big L? How do you kill 2Pac? How do you kill Soulja Slim? How do you kill Nipsey Hussle? How da fuck do you do that? When is enough enough? Again, my condolences to his family. I pray that he’s Resting In Peace.
Shit is just how it is. People don’t give a fuck who you are, and you have to know people aren’t about to bow down to you. Shit goes both ways. It sounds like it was somebody he had beef with came at him or sent somebody for him, but that’s why you have to find a way to diffuse that kind of shit before it gets to that level. People just aren’t going to take an L, verbally or physically, and just walk away these days. That’s just not the mentality. Dude walked up and blasted John Lennon, so people just don’t care.
I get what you are saying, trust me I do. I agree with cha…Its still hard for me to wrap my mind around this bullshit. It could’ve been avoided. Some things sit well with me, where I get it…I understand how some things can happen. But this incident doesn’t sit well with me. But I feel you.
These studio gangsters contradict themselves constantly. They try to act like they want positives in their hoods, but they only draw out and dwell on the negatives. They promote violence, drugs, misogyny and gang culture. Then when one of them gets killed they act all shocked on Twitter. These guys are poverty pimps just like their mentor Obama and Maxine Waters. They are not about you or I coming up. That’s why they promote chaos and disorder.
Maybe if he wasnt rapping about being a gangster and living in in a mansion with security he wouldnt be dead today. Its also funny how these double standards come up like Michael Jackson and such. Hiphop is getting ridiculous and laughed at :/
I seriously never listened to Nipsey. Once in probably 2010 or 2011 I heard him freestyle in a radio interview over the beat to “Nas is Like” and he killed it, so i was waiting for his major label debut, but I guess by the time it came out and he got established I had lost interest. I’ve been looking for the video of that freestyle all day, appreciate anyone who can help.
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This fool has to make everything about him. He’s such a girl. Nobody sees him as the “G” he thinks he is. He’s not a real MC, he’s not a real gangster. He’s just a boy toy with no style of his own, constantly begging for attention, posing naked with guns in the mirror. Come out of the closet Game, it’d be the realest thing you’ve ever done.