HipHopDX kicked off its new Soulful Sundays series on Sunday (February 18). Hosted by DX Editor-In-Chief Trent Clark, the inaugural episode features Los Angeles-bred rapper Nipsey Hussle.
The two Hip Hop aficionados pull up a stool at the soul food restaurant Comfort LA where they discuss a bevy of topics, including Nipsey’s deal with Atlantic Records and the sacrifices he had to make in his personal life to get to where he is today.
“It’s a big sacrifice, truthfully,” Nipsey tells DX. “From your relationships, family life, how much time you get to spend with your people, your kids — you gotta really put work in. As a major label artist that has a full team, it’s a lot of work. Even more so, after you finish your songs, you gotta to the marketing side of it and work on marketing as well. You gotta go to the executive side and be an executive as well. so you gotta cut some corners in other places in order to fulfill all the roles.”
Nipsey, who just released his debut studio album Victory Lap, also touched on his 2016 single with YG, “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump).” He acknowledged YG for coming up with the idea.
“Conceptually, I gotta give credit to YG on that just because we really got on the phone to do a collab project,” he explains. “So, we got in. [DJ] Mustard was there. We did like four or five records. After the fourth or fifth record, he came in the studio and was like, ‘Hey man, whatchu think about a Donald Trump record?’
“He starting humming like ‘Fuck Donald Trump’ just right then and there in the studio. I’m like, ‘Yeah that sounds cool. Go lay it.’ He go to lay it, and we he come out the booth, we hear it back on the speakers and everybody in the studio looking around like, ‘Damn. Is this something right here?’ … Everybody kind of got like, ‘Damn that might be it.’ I’m really proud of that record. It was before it became cool to say, ‘Fuck Donald Trump.'”
Soulful Sundays airs every other Sunday at 9 a.m. PST.
Its so funny how we let this hood gang banger talk about our president. A shooting erupts during his album release party. This clown is a fucking joke. I hope somebody kills this scumbag. Grow up man, you can’t even do something productive without violence, but we let him speak on politics. Dude probably can’t do my daughter’s 1st grade math homework.
Triggered much, mate?
That “hood gang banger” wasn’t outside of his own album release committing any violence. You dip shit. I’m not sure you can call him ignorant, considering the success he has created for himself and his family through his chosen career path. You may not like him, and you’re completely entitled to your opinion. But, wishing death on someone is about as low as it gets. You might want to “grow up, man”.
Guess you got what you asked for. Hope you feel like the piece of shit you are!
It would literally be more controversial for a popular artist to show support for Trump than it would be to call for his death nowadays. It’s crazy. I see why people dislike him, but the fact of the matter is that Obama, Bush, Clintons… are all globalist puppets. Trumps a nationalist. It was the RNC, DNC, Media, Sitting president at that time, Hollywood, Wall Street, Big pharma, etc VS Trump… that should tell you that he’s something different than what we’ve had the last few decades. His own party tried to stop him from winning. Again, I get why many people don’t like him. We’re all entitled to our opinion. I hated obama… but at the end of the day, I respected him, and always respected his supporters. One love to everyone. Doesn’t matter who you like or dislike, I LIKE AMERICANS!
Shoutout to Trent. I eat at that organic soul food restaurant sll of the time. I love that place. Good food and good hiphop decor!
I love the glory holes in their gender neutral bathroom.
Trump can not win no matter what he does. Their is only one reason Obozo was voted in twice and we all know what that is
No one cares about this guy why are u forcing another bullshit wack artist down our throat
dont even gotta read this to know what he said. he’s worked so hard and sacrificed so much to get to where he is today, and he hates donald trump. interesting and intriguing questions to ask.
You cant say anything about a man who takes care if his business his family and his community.