{"id":148229,"date":"2025-08-15T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148229\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:20:17","slug":"nipsey-hussle-honored-by-la-metro-on-his-heavenly-40th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/148229\/","title":{"rendered":"Nipsey Hussle honored by LA Metro on his heavenly 40th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/762FB200F6110DF517AF094A1E1E48F0.jpg\" alt=\"Metro honoring Nipsey Hussle\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-fa1f2118=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> &#8211; LA Metro is honoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/people\/nipsey-hussle\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nipsey Hussle<\/a> on his heavenly 40th birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Grammy Award-winning rapper and community activist Nipsey Hussle, born Ermias Joseph Asghedom, would have celebrated his 40th birthday on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">To honor the South LA native&#8217;s legacy, LA Metro is offering 12,000 limited-edition Nipsey Hussle TAP cards beginning at 10 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nipseylametro.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">&#8220;The TAP cards are part of the Metro x Culture series celebrating Angelenos who&#8217;ve shaped LA culture \u2013 leaders, artists, visionaries \u2013 especially those whose journeys began on Metro buses and trains,&#8221; Metro officials explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Metro will also temporarily rename the Hyde Park station along Crenshaw Boulevard the &#8220;Nipsey Hussle Station.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">A YouTube video was released of Nipsey Hussle detailing his humble beginnings and riding Metro buses for hours while listening to music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Watch the tribute below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> The Marathon Continues <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Gone but not forgotten, Nipsey Hussle popularized the phrase &#8220;The Marathon Continues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gettyimages-1134176382.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">He posthumously won two Grammy Awards in 2020 for &#8220;Racks in the Middle,&#8221; and &#8220;Higher,&#8221; in collaboration with DJ Khaled and John Legend.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">His brother Blacc Sam, whose real name is Samiel Asghedom, has opened two Marathon Burger locations this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">&#8220;Me and Hussle worked together cooking and so we always sad \u2018Man, we need to get a restaruant. We know how to run it.\u2019 So, this would align with his vision for the Marathon brand and expanding the brand,&#8221; he explained in a previous interview with FOX 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>SUGGESTED:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This story was written with information provided by LA Metro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/people\/nipsey-hussle\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nipsey Hussle<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/transportation\/metro\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metro<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/transportation\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8211; LA Metro is honoring Nipsey Hussle on his heavenly 40th birthday.\u00a0 What we know: Grammy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,5248,50,87428,3546,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-148229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nipsey-hussle","16":"tag-people","17":"tag-transportation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115033697841880537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}