Nipsey Hussle, shooting suspect: a budding rapper with hard accents

"He was a talented and brilliant artist, a globally successful entrepreneur, who worked closely with that city to save lives and transform them, even as he did for himself," he said. Mayor Eric Garcetti. "He was an indefatigable defender of the young people of this city and this world, to raise them with the possibility and not to be imprisoned for their origin or their past mistakes."