Nipsey Hussle’s mother, Angelique Smith, took the 2019 BET Awards stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night (June 23).
Alongside Nip’s grandmother, father, Lauren London and his three children, Smith accepted his posthumous Humanitarian Award.
Dressed in a tie-dyed skirt and bright orange jacket, Smith went into a colorful account of the moment she showed up to the Marathon Clothing Store on Slauson and Crenshaw, the location where Nip was shot and killed on March 31.
Smith detailed the conversation she had with a police officer on the scene and revealed she’d had a spiritual experience before she left for the hospital.
“One of Ermias’s close friends was very traumatized,” she said in part. “I walked over to him and put my hands on his shoulder, and I told him, ‘Evan, look into my eyes, Evan.’ I said, ‘You know that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience, right Evan? You understand that, right?’ So even though our bodies die, as they call it on this side of eternity, our spirits lives.
“We lift out of this vessel and we continue on, and then I felt a spirit of retribution and revenge when I had my hands on his shoulder and I had to talk .. I was 100 percent present in the spirit and 100 percent absent in the body until I felt that spirit of retribution and revenge … I could tell I chased those spirits away from him.”
When Nip’s father approached the mic, there was an awkward moment when Smith tried to get him to speak closer to the mic, but he told her, “Do your thing over there.”
Of course, Twitter had its commentary and most were intrigued by Smith’s words.
Check out some of the reactions below.
RIP Nipsey.
Man, Nipsey was a blood sacrifice. They show us every chance they get with this over the top “celebration” of his life. This guy was a crip. Cut the bs already. He wasn’t this big alive, so why all this over the top crap now? The people who took him out are flexing and it’s all on TV.
The question remains tho, who was he a sacrifice for? What do you think?
grammy nod says youre wrong
What’s up with Nipsey’a dad? Looks like a Ethiopian Humpty Hump.
Eritreans and Ethiopians are hard to distinguish; I live around them in Kenya – They have this terminology “Habesha” that refers to them as a collective.
She sounded crazy!! I’m glad the dad put her in check and said “just do your own thing”
Everyone still riding the Nipsey cash cow!! LOL
Hey who cares life goes on! Every body gotta go sooner or later. Why keep talking about it. Dude was a drugged out space cadet anyways!
You’re a clown.
And dude mama not no Ethiopian jus another spaced out hood rat from the ghetto that got saved by a captain save a hoe!
Life..& Death..is in the Power..of the Tongue..Keep talking like That..YOU, WILL REAP..What YOU Sow, Our Words..Are More Valuable..Then Money…Guard.. Your Mouth
Other than Mary J. Blige’s performance, the BET Awards was a disappointment. The Nipsey Hussle tribute should’ve been better than that. Marsha did her thing, YG should’ve done Last Time I Checked by himself and I have no idea what da fuck DJ Khaled was doing other than talking over everyone. Horrible tribute in my opinion. And was it me or did his family have issues? The Grandmother gave a great speech, it looked like Lauren wanted to close out the speaking for the family, his Mom (no comment) and his Dad seem to put his Mom in her place. The tribute was just off…he deserved better than that.
Who even knows what’s real anymore. For all we know Nipsey got love in his neighborhood because he was paying all their bills. His music alone certainly deserved no award as it was mediocre on it’s best day….but he was only in the spotlight now once gang references in rap skyrocketed a few years ago when everyone started riding Chicago’s piece. A few black owned businesses dont erase the mass destruction of gang related violence
You sound stupid.
One less piece of gang scum. Glad ur guys boy nip passed.
fuck you dumb ass punk
“my son he was a gud boi he dindu n.uffin.. it was dem rayciss white folk who done did it”
Here’s the shorter version of your life…
“I don’t receive enough love, so I take it out on black media sites..”
Never heard of Nipsey in my life. BET AWARDS sucked this year. U go M.J. you took the show. I thought the mom was high at first. I got it later, but next time talk to some who did not get it, so they understand. You were too deep for some.