Nipsey Hussle is set to have a metro station in Los Angeles named after him.
In honor of what would have been the rapper’s 40th birthday, Los Angeles Metro are renaming Hyde Park station after the Compton native until the end of August.
Nipsey was involved in the revitalization of the area near to the station.
Furthermore, the city are also releasing two TAP cards that celebrate the late rapper with 12,000 cards available across the city which feature Nipsey.
Nipsey Hussle‘s brother Blacc Sam previously said a posthumous album from the late rapper would be arriving this summer.
Appearing on Power 106’s Brown Bag Morning Show back in February, Sam revealed the LP will be a joint project with Bino Rideaux and that it was recorded before Nipsey was killed in 2019.
“If Hussle didn’t actually do the verse or work with the person or put together the blueprint for the project, we not doing it,” Sam said. “He did something with Bino and there’s a new project that we’re about to release. This was a project that he had with Bino that was pretty much like 80% finished.”
He continued: “So the team kind of came in, got some unreleased verses and music that he had done with Bino and just tightened it up. It sounds amazing. It should be coming out around this summer. The team is real excited. We just finished going over all the stuff for the last three weeks with everybody.”
Blacc Sam was at the show to promote Nipsey Hussle’s Marathon Brand amid the opening of a new burger restaurant in his home city of Los Angeles.
The restaurant opened in March on Melrose and Gardner, just a short distance from Nipsey’s Marathon clothing store, and will sell smash burgers.
The dining room of the restaurant features images of the late rapper.
“The Marathon team is excited to expand the brand into the restaurant industry here in L.A.,” Nipsey’s team said in a statement.
“When Nipsey birthed The Marathon (Brand), launching it with The Marathon mixtape in 2010, the goal was always to enterprise this into a full lifestyle brand — music, fashion, food/hospitality, and entertainment. This is another step towards reaching Hussle’s vision.”
