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• NIPSEY HUSSLE CRENSHAW LYRICS PRO

“She wanted to give me a better opportunity.” The Chosin Few sound like students who learned to rap in a gothic classroom taught by Bones and Bone Thugs. To this day, she cleans a house for a wealthy family in Hancock Park and used the family’s address to send her kids to better middle and high schools. “I grew up a block away from here, but my Mom took me to Fairfax High School every morning,” he says, taking a hit of a dab. Long bike rides listening to Chief Keef and early Spaceghostpurrp. Lots of skateboarding and graffiti writing. These are three of the most humble and focused artists that I’ve worked with.”īack on the porch, Alvarado talks about his upbringing. I was sold when I found out that they were from around the way and had the respect from everyone in their neighborhood. “Once I listened to them actually rap, I loved how they all had completely different styles. “Once I saw the branding in their video as well as the energy it drew me in,” Aubert says. Kimbro and Jeremiah “Picaso” Aubert, the firm and record label has nurtured the careers of some of the scene’s biggest artists, including Shoreline Mafia, AzChike, 1TakeJay, and production juggernaut Hit Mob. It’s this singularity that led the prominent management company R Baron to sign them. It’s evident in the music video for their self-titled song, which cuts between eerie scenes of Evxga in a black hood with a blood-red backdrop and he and his crew partying in front of their neighborhood liquor store. They sound like students who learned to rap in a gothic classroom taught by Bones and Bone Thugs. rap reflects the sonic legacy of G-Funk, the minimalist piano menace of the ratchet era, 808 drums, and lyrics that stick close to palm trees, pistols, and pretty women Chosin Few are markedly different. When he died, he was the only one that was supporting my music. “We went to juvenile hall together,” he continues.

It reveals a nearly finished portrait of Dave-o, his best friend in high school who overdosed on Xanax a week before their graduation in 2016. “This is my road dawg,” Alvarado says, enthusiastically showing off his new tattoo. For now, gathering in the front yard, drinking beer and taking dab hits on a hot summer day is done without protest from neighbors or authorities. As Project Crenshaw bulldozes on, this neighborhood will drastically change in the coming years as has neighboring Inglewood, with the building of So-Fi Stadium and the renovation of The Forum. Like many in the area, this house features a long driveway, a nice-sized front yard and access to an alley.

The block, as they refer to it, is roughly two miles from Nipsey Hussle Square. He holds a case of Pacifico and offers a cold bottle to everyone gathered on this porch in the Rollin 40s neighborhood of South Central.

NIPSEY HUSSLE CRENSHAW LYRICS PRO

Today, he sports a plain Pro Club t-shirt, an Atlanta Braves hat, and a silver “Chosin Few’’ chain. Half-Salvadoran and half-Honduran, he’s heavy-set, with long curly hair. Better known as Evxga, the 22-year old is far from your archetypal L.A. Just take a look at the trio’s de facto frontman, Eric Alvarado. rap world.įrom the unorthodox spelling of their name to their ability to bridge cultural divides, the Chosin Few refuse to conform to expectations.

And now, it has produced three Central American rappers, who might be the next to break out of the L.A. The ancestral home of Darryl Strawberry and former Mayor Tom Bradley. It’s where the characters of John Singleton’s Boyz n The Hood lived and died. This is the place that birthed the legendary G-Funk producer Battlecat and the psychedelic innovator Arthur Lee of Love. intersections since Hollywood and Vine, it was already renowned as a hub of African American culture. For a neighborhood that rarely attracts outsiders, the name “Crenshaw” commands worldwide notoriety.Įven before Nipsey Hussle turned Crenshaw and Slauson into one of the most fabled L.A.