COMMONLIT ASSIGNMENT! // article- NIPSEY HUSSLE STREET ART IN LOS ANGELES BREATHES LIFE INTO LEGACY

5.) Summarize the article in 4-5 sentences.

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Various murals of Nipsey Hussle have popped up in different locations in Los Angeles. Nipsey was shot dead outside his clothing store, an even that shocked the hip-hop community.

After his death his colleagues and friends showed their grief and feelings in heartfelt words, but for a lot of street artist painting murals of the rapper was how they showed their respect.

The artist immortalized him through the murals as a way of preserving his legacy and entrepreneurial spirit. The murals depict him in various poses, one as an angel, one showing him gazing at the sky with the lyrics of his most popular song written alongside, and most notable of them all is one painted on a school basketball court.

The mural created on the basketball court of Crete Academy continues to draw devoted fans who take pictures on it to remember him by.

Explanation:

Nipsey Hussle was a Los Angeles rapper who fatally shot on March 31 while he standing outside The Marathon, his clothing store located in South Los Angeles.

Over 50 colorful murals of Nipsey Hussle have popped up in Los Angeles since his death. They can be found along busy highways, on the sides of buildings and even inside a school basketball court, depicting the rapper in different poses.

The street artists who created the work said they want his legacy to grow and his entrepreneurial spirit to live on.

The last sentence in the novel is also the first sentence of the novel.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

Explanation:

Chapter 5, page 77:

"The mist is what was pretty," Johnny said. "All gold and silver."

"Uh," I said, trying to blow a smoke ring.

"Too bad it couldn't stay like that all the time."

"Nothing gold can stay." I was remembering a poem I'd read once.

"What?"

"Natures first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower,

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay."

Johnny was staring at me. "Where'd you learn that. That was what I meant."