Rapper Nipsey Hussle Was More Than Just A Rapper... Used His Fame To Push Young People Towards Tech Skills And Entrepreneurship
By Nneka Olisa - April 02, 2019
"The
only way you’re going to be fulfilled is if you know you gave everything you
had," said Hussle, who was killed Sunday. "You emptied yourself here,
you left it all here, because it’s temporary and you’ve got a moment."
Rapper Nipsey Hussle, who was shot and killed Sunday night, used his fame from his Grammy-nominated music to help advance social justice issues and entrepreneurship projects in his hometown of South Los Angeles.
Born Ermias Davidson Asghedom, the 33-year-old was due to meet with Los Angeles Police Department Commissioner Steve Soboroff and Chief of Police Michel Moore on Monday afternoon.
The meeting, requested by Hussle, aimed "to talk about ways he could help stop gang violence and help us help kids," Soboroff said on Twitter. "I'm so very sad."
We (@LAPDChiefMoore and I )
were meeting , at the request of @NipseyHussle
with him and @rocnation tomorrow at 4pm
to talk about ways he could help stop gang violence and help us help kids. I’m
so very sad.
He had timed the album's February 2018 release to coincidence with his opening Vector90, a coworking space and STEM training center — where people learn coding and other tech skills — he had launched in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles.
"Growing up as a kid, I was looking for somebody — not to give me anything — but somebody that cared," Hussle told the LA Times in 2018 in an interview about the business. "Someone," he said, "that was creating the potential for change and that had an agenda outside of their own self-interests."
Vector90 is
specifically aimed at providing space and training for kids from South Central
LA to learn and connect them with Silicon Valley. Hussle said he was concerned
about the low numbers of black people at major tech companies.
"The goal is
to create a bridge between the inner cities and Silicon Valley," he said
in an Instagram video posted on Vector90's account. "Especially it’s
important to LA, because that’s an hour away. And there’s minimal
representation."
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