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Nipsey Hussle funeral procession shooting video: What happened?

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Nipsey Hussle
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Nipsey Hussle was a well-known rapper from the ‘West Coast Hip Hop‘ culture in the United States.

Raised in the South Los Angeles area of Crenshaw, he was nurtured in an environment of gun violence, drug smuggling, and police brutality and was eventually lured to it. 

He left home at the age of 14 to join the local ‘Rollin 60’s Neighborhood Crips’, mostly because he thought it was vital to continue on the “heritage” of his community.

When he was 19, his emigrant father took him to his country Eritrea, which was ravaged by conflict and poverty. He came home to focus on his music career, recording mixtapes after mixtapes.

Furthermore, he began doing voluntary activities, creating many enterprises to protect children away from crime. 

As a sign of economic self-sufficiency, he also established a record label and a flagship store. He died at the age of 33 after being shot in front of his business, probably out of personal animosity.

Nipsey Hussle funeral procession shooting video: What happened?

However, a drive-by shooting killed one person and injured three others near the route of the funeral procession for the deceased rapper.

The gunfire struck three men and a woman around 6:25 p.m. at 103rd and Main streets, along the route taken a short time earlier by a hearse carrying the body of Hussle according to Los Angeles Police Department officials.

The funeral procession was about to arrive at a funeral home some 8 kilometers away when the gunshots rang out.

Head of content and Editor-at-large at Ghanafuo.com – Dickson Ofori Siaw is a blunt writer who loves to make his readers see "the other perspectives of a news story". Follow me on Twitter @kwadwo_dost

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