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Nipsey Hussle ‘Burn It Down’ (MTM Remix) West Coast Banger! Just watched “Burn It Down” and loved the gritty urban vibe throughout the video. The combination of strong visuals, street-inspired storytelling, and hard-hitting production creates an engaging hip hop experience.
“The first musical breakthrough came when Ralo was working with a family friend named Zayd Malik, godson of Mtulu Shakur, Afeni Shakur’s husband and Tupac’s stepfather. “Afeni belonged to that same organization as my mom and Mtulu, and a bunch of other people I could name but I won’t,” says Ralo. “They’re college professors, doctors, and lawyers who are all revolutionaries but they assimilated.” Mtulu encouraged Malik’s aspirations to become a rapper, and invited him to contribute a track to the Tupac tribute album Dare 2 Struggle. In 2001, Ralo produced the song, titled “Somethin’ Ain’t Right,” and recorded a guest verse. He invited Ermias, aka Concept, to lay down a dazzling feature that juxtaposed police sirens, dark streets, and the philosophy of Marcus Garvey. “I blame the system for birthin’ niggas like me,” he rapped. “I’m the rebel, Concept forever the ghetto’s poet / Black life treated like weed, light it, puff it, then blow it / But not me…” Afeni was so impressed with the song that she invited Ermias, Ralo, and Rimpau to Georgia to perform with Zayd at the release party for the Tupac album Better Dayz. As Afeni drove with them from Atlanta to Stone Mountain, her phone rang. It was Mtulu Shakur, Tupac’s stepfather, calling from a federal correctional facility. For no apparent reason, he asked to speak with Ermias, although they had never met before and there were three young visitors in the van. “Just the fact that that happened was supernatural,” says Ralo, sounding shocked years after the fact. “These two people raised the most influential rapper of our generation who got gunned down and [Nipsey] took the fuckin’ torch.” That night Zayd, EQ, and Concept performed inside a tent and rocked a crowd of Tupac’s family, friends, and fans—in the same city as Stone Mountain Park, the site of historic Klan rallies and the “Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy,” the world’s largest monument to White Supremacy. Ermias began making regular trips to Atlanta after that, staying with Zayd and immersing himself in Southern rap—Gooch remembers him bringing an early T.I. mixtape back to L.A.—and the teachings of the Black nationalist organization the Republic of New Afrika. “They had like minds and they used to talk about a lot of deep shit,” Gooch recalls. “Like Malcolm X–type stuff, Geronimo Pratt, and COINTELPRO, the FBI.” Nip started reading books like The Spook Who Sat By The Door and he set up a base in ATL, doing some hustling and getting his own apartment. On his song “Crenshaw & Slauson (True Story),” Hussle rapped about “Real estate in Atlanta but ain’t nobody know.” - The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
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