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YG Promises “Special Project” with Nipsey Hussle

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The death of Nipsey Hussle is still sending vibrations throughout the hip hop community especially with the recent developments with the accused killer Eric Holder. One of the rappers to attend the ‘Life Celebrations” event was YG. He had a new album dropping at the time, but he postponed it out due to the passing of his friend Nipsey Hussle.

The rescheduled date was May 24th and now he has released the album entitled “4 Real 4 Real“. He posted the artwork on his Instagram account and dedicated the project to Nipsey Hussle.

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4REAL 4REAL THE ALBUM. MAY 24TH! 🏁

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As part of his promotion of the album, YG dropped by Real 92.3 to speak with Bootleg Kev and DJ Hed. During the conversation he revealed he was working with Nipsey on music before his death. 

I got a special project I was working on with Nip right before he passed. It’s like, it’s special, we gonna make that happen, his family and everybody want that to happen, that’s a priority for me.”

YG

Fans of Nipsey Hussle must be excited to hear that there is still unreleased music from the hip hop artist.

me and Nip was just in the studio like last September, October, we had started to try to work on the project again and we was trying to put it out by December. But, shit just ain’t happen.

YG