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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 12 april 2019
Fans arrive for rapper Nipsey Hussle's Los Angeles memorial

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. ter will then travel past the
MESFIN FEKADU property where Hussle had
Associated Press planned to turn an aging
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fans strip mall into new business-
poured into the Staples es and affordable homes.
Center on Thursday to pay Finally, it will arrive at a fu-
tribute to Nipsey Hussle, the neral home in the city's
rapper and community ac- hard-scrabble Crenshaw
tivist slain last month in front district, where the rapper
of a store that he tried to was born on Aug. 15, 1985.
use to empower his South Hussle was shot to death
Central neighborhood. March 31 while standing
Most who filed in for the outside The Marathon, his
public memorial were South Los Angeles clothing
young adults but ages store, not far from where
ranged from small children the rapper grew up. The
to the elderly. store will be one of the
"We're not just here to get places where Hussle's cas-
off work, we're not just ket passes during the pro-
here to take selfies outside cession through South Los
Staples, we can do that Angeles.
anytime," said Wutup Levy, Eric R. Holder Jr., who has
27, of Long Beach, Cali- been charged with killing
fornia, as he looked for a Hussle, has pleaded not
friend who had a ticket for guilty. Police have said
him. "We're here for a great This March 29, 2018 file photo shows rapper Nipsey Hussle at an NBA basketball game between Holder and Hussle had sev-
man. We're all here for big the Golden State Warriors and the Milwaukee Bucks in Oakland, Calif. eral interactions the day of
Nip. It wasn't his time." Associated Press the shooting and have de-
The Nipsey Hussle's Cel- scribed it as being the result
ebration of Life ceremony his journey to improve his the service, with thousands Game and LeBron James. of a personal dispute.
was set to begin at 10 a.m. community. more paying their respects "I've never cried myself to The 33-year-old Grammy-
PDT, but was delayed. "This is a once in a lifetime to the late rapper during a sleep over any public fig- nominated rapper, whose
Around the time it was thing," said Harris, 23, who 25-mile procession through ure before, but Nipsey's real name was Ermias As-
to start, about half of the lives in South Los Angeles. the city. presence meant so much ghedom, was an Eritrean-
Staples Center was full and "Everything that happened Books with an image of for our community," actress American father of two
fans were still waiting to get is so impromptu. We are all Hussle on the cover were Issa Rae said in her mes- who was engaged to ac-
inside. taking it in all at once. He handed out to service at- sage inside the book. tress Lauren London. He
Daren B. Harris waited was a treasure." tendees. The book of near- No details were released was a beloved figure for
outside the arena before Harris' grandmother, Reba ly 100 pages contained about dignitaries and ce- his philanthropic work that
the doors opened with his Johnson, said she couldn't numerous photos of Hussle lebrities who will attend, went well beyond the usu-
grandmother and other miss the occasion to cel- with his fiancée Lauren perform or speak at the al celebrity "giving back"
family members, who wore ebrate Hussle's life. London, his children, and memorial. The event will be ethos. Following his death,
black T-shirts with Hussle's "He was bigger than his mu- friends like Russell West- livestreamed on BET and political and community
face on them. Harris said he sic" she said. brook and Snoop Dogg. BET News' Facebook page. leaders were as quick and
grew up listening the rap- More than 20,000 people It also had heartfelt mes- The hearse carrying Hussle's effusive in their praise as his
per's music and followed are expected to attend sages from Rick Ross, The coffin from the Staples Cen- fellow hip-hop artists.q
'The Eighth Sister' is a gripping thriller

By JEFF AYERS ily on a farm on a remote as the "Seven Sisters." The race as Jenkins tries to es-
Associated Press island in Washington state. hope is that when Jenkins cape foreign territory while
"The Eighth Sister" by Robert His wife is expecting their arrives in Russia and starts the climate favors an angry
Dugoni (Thomas and Mer- second child, and he runs to ask questions, the elusive Russian official who wants
cer). a security consulting busi- agent known as the Eighth his brand of justice.
Charles Jenkins has left his ness to pay the bills. When Sister will make her pres- Robert Dugoni has crafted
time in the CIA far behind financial issues force him to ence known. Jenkins des- a thriller with "The Eighth
and now lives with his fam- contemplate how to pay perately needs the money, Sister" that echoes the best
his employees while at the so he reluctantly agrees to of classic Russian literature
same time keeping his wife the mission. with a hint of John LeCarre
as stress-free as possible The initial routine assign- added to the mix. When
due to pregnancy compli- ment soon turns deadly the storyline veers into pre-
cations, Jenkins receives when Jenkins stumbles dictability, the narrative
an offer he should refuse. upon a buried secret, and takes a drastic turn and be-
His former boss arrives at with that comes the wrath comes a legal drama that
the farm and asks him to of a Russian intelligence will remind readers of Scott
travel undercover to Mos- officer. He wants Jenkins Turow's best. This novel is This cover image released by
cow to find a Russian oper- eliminated, and like Javert destined to be a classic in Thomas and Mercer shows
ative targeting agents from in "Les Miserables," will not the genre, and Dugoni is ar- "The Eighth Sister," by Robert
Dugoni.
the United States that were give up under any circum- guably one of the best writ- Associated Press
part of an operation known stances. Now it becomes a ers in the field right now.q