LOS ANGELES – Since the passing of the rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle there has been an outpour of support from the Los Angeles community remembering the positive and lasting impact he had.

More than 20,000 people attended the memorial for Hussle in April. Hussle was killed on March 31 in front of his store Marathon Clothing. August 15 marks what would have been the rapper’s 34^th birthday.

People are expected to gather at the strip mall on Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson Avenue, where Hussle was shot to death. For weeks after his death, candles and tributes filled the parking lot to pay homage to their entrepreneur.

Less than two weeks after he passed away, a 10-foot-tall mural was panted in the Crenshaw District of Hussle. An online petition was also created to have the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson Avenue as “Nipsey Husssle Boulevard” gaining more than 500,000 signatures. 

In a letter read at his memorial, President Barack Obama said “While most people look at the Crenshaw neighborhood where he grew up and only see gangs, bullets, and despair, he saw potential, he saw hope.”

Fashion stylist Tiffany Dean, who worked with Hussle on his first music video, said he believed in his neighborhood. The video was shot on the streets where he grew up, which Dean says was to show the world where he came from.

Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who represents the 8th District, worked with Nipsey Hussle before his sudden death. 

“What he’s left is a cohort of people that know how to run businesses, know how to get ventures started, know how to make investments and I think, will continue that in a more aggressive way going forward,” said Harris-Dawson.