Airmiess Joseph Asghedom, August 15 1985 - March 31 of 2019 was an American rapper, entrepreneur, and activist. Hussle emerged from West Coast hip-hop in the mid-2000s. He released his first mixtape Slauson Boy Volume 1. With moderate success locally the rapper was signed by Epic Records and Cinematic Music Group. The album he released as his debut studio album Victory Lap that was delayed for several months, was released in 2018. The album was greeted with praise from critics as well as commercial success and was nominated at the 61st Grammy Awards 2019. At the 62nd Grammy Awards in 2020, two posthumous Grammy Awards for the songs "Racks in the Middle" and "Higher" were presented to Hussle in the Best Rap Performance and Best Rap/Sung Performance categories respectively.Outside of music, Hussle inaugurated the Marathon Clothing store in partnership with his partners Carless, the head of the agency Karen Civil, and his brother Samiel Asghedom in 2017, and started a co-working environment which he named "Vector 90". Hussle was shot and killed outside the store in South Central Los Angeles store on March 31, 2019. Eric Holder, a 29-year-old man who fought Hussle the day before was taken into custody and accused of murder within two days. Holder was found guilty of murder in the first degree on July 6, 2022.
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