According to npr.org, rapper Nipsey Hussle has received a Hollywood Star posthumously on Monday on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on what would have been his 37th birthday. The star was revealed during a ceremony on Monday afternoon and is located in front of Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. The ceremony contained speeches from members of his family, Samantha Smith, his sister, his grandmother Margaret Boutte, and his fiancée, Lauren London. Nipsey Hussle’s grandmother accepted the star on Hussle’s behalf. In a quote about Hussle from his fiancée she said, “I think I speak for the entire city of LA when I say that we’ve always known Hussle was destined for greatness, This moment only amplifies this for us. Nip would’ve been honored by this moment.” The rappers’ star on the Walk of Fame is the 2,729th star to be placed since it began in 1961, according to NBC4. Back in July, Los Angeles County jurors found that 32 year old Eric R. Holder Jr. guilty of first degree murder of Hussle, while also being convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter due to two other men getting injured from the gunfire that occurred at the scene. Holder faces the possibility of life in prison and will face sentencing next month.
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