NIPSEY HUSSLE ON VIMBY

VIMBY - Nipsey Hussle

Vimby hit the streets to chop it up with up and coming West Coast rapper Nipsey Hussle. Nipsey is part of the new breed of rappers that are set on carrying the torch of traditional West Coast Gangsta rap. Nipsey has been compared to Snoop, but I feel he definitely has his own thing going on. Look for Nipsey making moves in '09.

"Epic Records is hoping that it will have the newest rap star in L.A.'s Nipsey Hussle, a young and focused rapper and beatsmith who first learned the finer points of creating and engineering his own music at age 14 through an after-school program at the Watts Towers that still exists a decade later. But while his name references the famous late comedian Nipsey Russell, there's nothing funny about Nip Hussle's street-focused subject matter. "Straight outta Slauson, a crazy m*therf*cker named Nipsey," he states, declaring his own South Central identity while tributing the legacy of NWA on "Hussle in the House"