Captured By The Game: Nipsey Hussle

Louder Than A Riot

NPR

Music History, Music, Society & Culture, Music Interviews, True Crime

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

After LA rapper Nipsey Hussle was murdered in 2019, city officials praised him for his community advocacy. But NPR has learned that behind the scenes, some law enforcement officers branded Nipsey as a gang member, and that label meant another man from Nipsey's neighborhood would be sent to jail — just for interacting with him. So why did California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation lie to us about it? And what does that say about the impact of law enforcement categorizing thousands of Black and brown men as potential criminals?

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0:25.2	Headset before we begin, this podcast is explicit in every way.
0:36.2	Even though April 11th, 2019 was a warm day in LA, there was a fog of morning over the whole city.
0:45.0	LA was laying to rest one of their hometown heroes, Nipsey Hustle.
0:50.8	11 days earlier, the iconic artist had been murdered in the parking lot of Marathon clothing.
0:56.6	The retail store he owned and the neighborhood he grew up in, Crenshaw.
1:02.0	For his public memorial service, Nipsey's friend, medium-aving Karen Syville,
1:07.4	helped organize a massive gathering at the Staples Center.
1:11.3	She was grieving herself when she took the stage in front of thousands,
1:14.6	but she had to pull together.
1:17.8	We would like to read a letter from the 44th president of the United States,
1:27.4	Barack Obama,
1:35.0	sent in regarding the life and celebration of Nipsey Hustle.
1:40.4	I'll just kept thinking about it. It's just like, make Nipsey proud.
1:44.6	He's looking like Casey hold it together.
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