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Listening to Nipsey Hussle’s raps on the JAY-Z collaboration “What It Feels Like,” some two years after his murder, we’re reminded of the excess of both wisdom and goodwill the MC disseminated so regularly. “Street n***a, still I get checks in spurts/I’m for peace, but before I get pressed I murk/Better days prayed for but expecting worse/At this level, b******t I’m just less concerned,” he says in the cut’s opening verse. His reputation as a man and budding entrepreneur notwithstanding, Nipsey might not have even been the most popular rapper in LA at the time of his passing, something that begs the question: Did we take Nipsey Hussle for granted? True fans would argue of course not, but whether you rode while we had him in the earthly form or not, Neighborhood Nip’s wisdom and influence will live on forever through the wealth of music he left us. “What It Feels Like” appears on the Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired Album compilation. Listen to the track on Rap Life, the playlist at the forefront of hip-hop culture today, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.