When It Hurts So Bad: Nipsey Hussle, a Parable

I was standing outside a seafood restaurant, we were celebrating my youngest brother’s birthday and my phone buzzed. I didn’t look because I was happy to be with family and I was taking it all in. But my middle brother looked at me and held up his phone, his was buzzing too.

Breaking News: Three Men Shot Outside LA Store Owned By Rapper Nipsey Hussle, One Has Died Two Are Critically Injured.

About 40 minutes later we found it was Hussle as his partner Lauren called him and he was gone. Why?He was good. He was doing good. He was just getting started.

There has been a gradual sinking in my chest the last few days—and I feel like the sadness and the mourning has been hitting me in increasingly intensified waves. This one hurts, it’s weighing on me. All over social media celebrities and fans began to talk about Nipsey and do their best to honor him and lament his death. It was understood that whoever shot him was gonna get got that night, no question. But that won’t bring him back. Street ju…