Photo by Jorge “JP” Peniche
The first time photographer Jorge “JP” Peniche met Nipsey Hussle in person, on the set of the “Hussle in the House” video, he noticed the rapper was already a “hometown hero” in his native Crenshaw neighborhood.
“Every car driving by was playing his music,” Peniche says, remembering the experience of being on Slauson and Crenshaw in 2009. “Someone was on a motorcycle blasting his music out loud. At that point, I’d been in the game for a couple of years, but I had yet to see anything like that.”
JP was already a fan of Nipsey’s