Nipsey Hussle‘s Marathon Brand continues to keep his legacy alive with the opening of a new burger restaurant in his home city of Los Angeles.
The restaurant opens on Saturday (March 1) on Melrose and Gardner, just a short distance from Nipsey’s Marathon clothing store, and will sell smash burgers.
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The dining room of the restaurant will also feature images of the late rapper and Saturday’s grand opening will see the first 100 customers eat for free.
“The Marathon team is excited to expand the brand into the restaurant industry here in L.A.,” the late rapper’s team said in a statement.
“When Nipsey birthed The Marathon (Brand), launching it with The Marathon mixtape in 2010, the goal was always to enterprise this into a full lifestyle brand — music, fashion, food/hospitality, and entertainment. This is another step towards reaching Hussle’s vision.”
Marathon Burger originally debuted last October as a pop-up restaurant selling burgers and chicken sandwiches, the brainchild of Nipsey’s brother, Blacc Sam.
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Nipsey began his Marathon brand back in 2010 and it has since been carried on by his estate and family following his murder in 2019.
The rapper’s killer, Eric Holder, recently attempted to overturn his 2022 conviction for fatally shooting the beloved figure, but the bid was squashed by an appeals court.
There were two main parts to the appeal. First, Holder claimed that the court was wrong to disallow part of his attorney’s closing argument — a part that asked the jury to imagine Holder’s state of mind during the shooting. But, the appeals court ruled, that speculation was correctly ruled out because Holder chose not to say his piece during the trial.
“Appellant did not testify, and no other evidence about what appellant was thinking or feeling prior to the shooting was presented to the jury. Thus, the inferences about appellant’s specific thoughts and feelings that defense counsel purported to draw were not based on the evidence,” the decision read.
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Another part of the appeal hinged on whether a firearm enhancement had correctly been added to Holder’s sentence. He lost that argument too.
“[T]he trial court fully understood and properly exercised its discretion when it declined to dismiss the firearm enhancement,” the decision continued.
