If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together. That filled in a blank spot for me, as far as understanding myself.
Nipsey Hussle, Complex interview, March 2010
The son of an Eritrean father and American mother, Hussle went to Africa for the first time in 2004. He spent three months getting to know his family in Eritrea. Gangs weren’t “the culture of that place,” he said in a Complex interview. “It was an actual conflict over land, over the border. A generational, decades-old conflict. That was more or less the culture of the young people. It was like, ‘I’
