NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Nipsey Hussle on 11 April 2019. Nipsey Hussle has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 61 episodes and was first played on 2 May 2013.

Ermias Asghedom (August 15, 1985 – March 31, 2019), known professionally as Nipsey Hussle (often stylized as Nipsey Hu$$le), was an American rapper and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. Emerging from the West Coast hip hop scene in the mid-2000s, Hussle initially became known for his numerous mixtapes, including his Bullets Ain't Got No Name series, The Marathon , The Marathon Continues , and Crenshaw , the latter…