Nipsey Hussle’s Brother Blacc Sam Opens Up About Rapper’s Last Moments
Nipsey Hussle‘s older Blacc Sam sat down with legendary radio personality Big Boy on his Off Air interview series.
In the recently published episode, they talked about a bunch of topics ranging from Sam and Nipsey’s childhood to the rapper’s untimely death that shook up the rap world. Toward the end of the interview, around the 1:07 mark, Blacc Sam opened up about the day his younger brother was killed in 2019. He remembered being optimistic that Nipsey would make it as they headed to the hospital but admitted to having his faith shaken when he ultimately passed. “Just couldn’t understand it. It was like the Twilight Zone after that,” he told Big Boy. “Everything I believed in — my faith was shattered.” Big then asked Blacc Sam if the murder was really as random as the public was led to believe, which prompted Sam to discuss the security protocol that was usually implemented whenever Nipsey visited his Marathon Clothing store.
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“Somebody come to the shop, they know we in the doorway,” he said. “When Hussle pull up, we in the doorway. You’re gonna see me with a hoodie on and I got a pistol on me. You’re gonna see one of the team members in the hoodie in the doorway with a pistol. That’s protocol when Hussle pull up.
“So, it’s Sunday. It’s busy in there. Why the n—a in there didn’t follow the protocol? I wasn’t there. Why they didn’t follow it? Maybe they was f—king around, helping a customer who was doing some f—king customer service. This is what I’m thinking, trying to transition into some legitimate, just selling clothes. But nobody was in the doorway. From my understanding ol’ boy walked up with no shirt on first to check the scene ‘cus he knows what’s going on in that parking lot,” he said. “Had a conversation, probably seen no one was in the doorway, checked Hussle had on shorts, checked everybody else, left. They say he came back with a red shirt on. Tip-toed through the alley, went right and started shooting.”
He continued: “So, to me that’s premeditated. Number one, there’s no red shirts in the hood. Can’t buy no red shirt, no liquor store sell no red shirt. Number two, when a n—a come through the alley with the red shirt, that’s the throw-off.”
This year marks the fifth anniversary of Nipsey’s death. His girlfriend at the time, Lauren London, paid tribute to the late rapper on Instagram, writing, “If you know me You know March is always tough for me 31 days of holding my breath,” she said. “This day decided to fall on Easter Sunday this 2024 Interesting…. considering your name #GodWillRise Energy never dies…. I love you. Eternal.”
Nipsey was recently in the news because he has a posthumous verse on Rakim’s first album in 15 years. The legendary MC talked about getting a Nipsey verse in an interview with Billboard last month.
You can watch the full Big Boy interview here.
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