Black Sam Reacts To Bloods Destroying Nipsey Hussels Grave

Thousands of fans [music] of Grammy nominated rapper and community activist Nipsey Hussle are in a state of shock today. They are mourning [music] the hip-hop star's ultimately and violent death. Uh Nipsey Hussle was murdered. Yo, Nipsey Hussle's grave marker is gone, destroyed, and Black Sam just went on record. That's what we're talking about today. Not a mural on a wall somewhere in Crenshaw that got tagged up with red ink. Not a painting on the side of a liquor store. We're talking about the actual resting place of Ermias Asghedom. The tombstone, the marker, the physical monument sitting on top of the ground where they buried the man, gone. Wiped out. And the word on the street is Bloods had everything to do with it. [music] Think about that for a second. This man died on March 31st, 2019. Shot down in front of his own store, his own business that he built from nothing in the neighborhood he refused to leave even when he had every reason to. They gave him a 25-mile funeral procession through the streets of Los Angeles. 20,000 people stood out there in the California heat to send him off. Crips and Bloods, sworn enemies since before most of us were born, stood side by side and held hands for Nipsey Hussle. They called it a historic moment. They said this man's death was finally going to change things. And now somebody rolled up to Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills and took out the man's grave marker. Black Sam saw it, and he talked. [music] And what he said connects threads that go all the way back to the day Nipsey was murdered. Threads that the mainstream media never wanted to pull on because the truth at the end of those threads is uncomfortable. So y'all need to hear this. The whole thing, from the beginning. Because this ain't random. This ain't new, and this damn sure ain't over. To understand why somebody would walk into a cemetery and destroy a dead man's grave, you got to understand who Nipsey Hussle was and what he represented. Not just to the culture, but to the specific geography of South Los Angeles. Ermias Joseph Asghedom was born August 15th, 1985. Half Eritrean, half African-American. He grew up on Crenshaw, in the thick of it. And he came up running with the Rolling 60s Neighborhood Crips. That's not a detail that exists separate from his story. That [music] is his story. Because everything Nipsey built, he built from inside that identity. He didn't run from the streets. He ran toward ownership within them. By the time the mainstream discovered him with Victory Lap in 2018, his first and only commercial album, Grammy nominated no less, Nipsey had already been in the game for over a decade. He was selling mixtapes out of his car. He sold his Crenshaw album for $100 a copy, 1,000 units, and moved all of them. He bought back property in the neighborhood where he grew up. He opened a co-working space. He was meeting with the LAPD to discuss gang reduction programs the week he died. He was literally about to sit down with law enforcement to talk about getting young people out of the lifestyle that almost swallowed him whole. That's who they killed. That's who they're still coming for even from the grave. Now, here's what people on the outside don't always understand about LA gang politics, gang. The Rolling 60s and the Bloods, specifically Piru sets, Inglewood Bloods, various Blood factions across South LA, have been at war for decades. This ain't TV beef. This ain't rap beef. This is generational, block-by-block, zip code level conflict where people have been dying for 40, 50 years over colors and territory. When Nipsey Hussle became a global icon, he didn't become that to everybody in Los Angeles. To certain factions of the Bloods, he wasn't a Grammy nominee. He was a 60s [ __ ] That context is everything for what happens next. The first time they came for Nipsey's memory, his body wasn't even cold yet. His murder happened March 31st, 2019. By May of that same year, his mural, the big one at the intersection of Slauson and Crenshaw in his own neighborhood, near the exact spot where he built everything, had been vandalized. Whoever did it wrote Capone NK across the mural in red ink. NK, for those who don't know the code, stands for Neighborhood Killer, a direct diss against [ __ ] neighborhoods. They wrote it across Nipsey's face in red, the color of Bloods. His best friend Cowboy went on camera, stood in front of that defaced mural, and said with his voice cracking, "Well, I just I was talking to Nipsey uh from the time he got to that parking lot, I was I was out there talking to him. I had just got my food, and uh I left to the break room to put my food down for a uh That's how y'all really feel? Disrespecting dead people? The community came out and repaired the mural. Artists [music] restored it. They thought it was over. It was defaced again within 24 hours. Same mural, same location, same red ink, twice in one day. Whoever was doing this wanted to make a statement. [music] They weren't slipping up. They were sending a message, loud and deliberate. And the message was, "We don't care how big Nipsey got. We don't care about your unity rallies. We don't care about Crips and Bloods marching together. This man was a 60, and we're going to remind y'all of that every time you try to make him into something else." But here's where it gets crazy. >> [music] >> Fast forward to July 2021. A young man named Zerail De'Jon Rivera, known online as Indian Red Boy, was sitting in his car on Instagram live somewhere in Hawthorne, California. He was talking to his friend, a man named Capone. Yes, the same Capone whose name was written on that mural in red ink. Rivera was a Blood. He'd allegedly been connected to the disrespect of Nipsey's memorial. And at approximately 4:00 p.m., a walk-up shooter approached his car and opened fire. Indian Red Boy was shot multiple times in the head. He died on camera, in front of his Instagram followers, gasping, saying, "Get help." Then silence. The internet went crazy. Everybody connected the dots immediately. This was payback for the mural, plain and simple, the streets said. The Hawthorne Police Department's own Lieutenant T. Goertz described it as a targeted walk-up shooting involving a gang member. Now, to be fair, there were other theories. Some insiders claimed it was about him switching gang sets and a situation with a female. That version of events circulated, too. The official motive was never formally confirmed, but the timing and the connection to Capone, the literal mural vandal, was not lost on anybody paying attention. That's the world we're operating in when we talk about attacks on Nipsey Hussle's legacy. This isn't light work. People have died over this. People have bled over this. And somebody still decided to go to Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills and take out the man's grave marker. Let me break this down for you because people need to understand the full timeline of what's happened to Nipsey's actual burial site. Nipsey Hussle was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills. His location within the cemetery is in the Court of Liberty section, Gardens of Heritage division. It was a private burial following that massive 25-mile procession through Los Angeles. Here's the thing that most people don't know. For years, Nipsey's grave had no marker, no tombstone, no inscription. Fans would show up to Forest Lawn and find nothing but a flat patch of ground. Videos from January 2022 show the grave still unmarked. [music] More videos from January 2025 show the same thing. That flowers placed at the location, but the grave marker itself still [music] absent. Now, there are reports that a new tombstone was put down in 2024, a new marker finally, years [music] after his death. And then in October 2025, someone photographed the grave site. The marker was gone. Again, y'all need to sit with that. They put a tombstone down in 2024. By October 2025, it was no longer there. Now, the question is, what happened to it? Was it removed by the family for reasons we don't know? Was it taken by the cemetery for maintenance or replacement? Or did somebody actually go into that cemetery and destroy it? [music] And that's exactly where Black Sam comes in. Black Sam, born Sam Asghedom, Nipsey's [music] older brother, the man who was literally there building everything alongside him, has been one of the most measured and careful voices in all of this. He doesn't talk recklessly. He chooses his moments. So when he speaks, [music] the streets listen. In August 2024, Black Sam sat down with Big Boy for a deep, hour-and-a-half interview that cracked open parts of the Nipsey story that had never been discussed publicly. [music] This wasn't just grief. This was testimony. This was a man who had been processing something for five years and finally [music] decided the world needed to know certain things. Here's what Sam said about the day Nipsey was murdered. He broke [music] down the security protocol that should have been in place at the Marathon clothing store. [music] He said when Nipsey pulled up to the store, the protocol was for his team members to be in the doorway. [music] Put it up, armed, visible, as a deterrent. On March 31st, 2019, that protocol wasn't followed. The doorway was empty. The team was inside helping customers. And then he described what he was told happened next. "From my understanding," Black Sam said, "a boy walked up with no shirt on first to check the scene. He knows what's going on in that parking lot. He probably seen no one was in the doorway. Hussle had on shorts, checked everybody else, left. [music] They say he came back with a red shirt on. Tiptoed through the alley, went right, and started shooting." A red shirt in Nipsey's neighborhood, where you cannot go buy a red shirt. Red is Blood color. And Black Sam said it himself, "When a [ __ ] come through an alley with a red shirt, that's a throw-off, or the Bloods did it." He said the Bloods did it. Nipsey Hussle's own brother on camera with Big Boy in Los Angeles said the Bloods may have orchestrated the murder. He said Eric Holder, the convicted [clears throat] killer, may have been sent because the whole approach felt like someone doing a job they were nervous about. Pre-planned, sent by someone else. Now, think about that in context of everything else. Think about the murals getting defaced. [music] Think about the grave marker disappearing. Think about Indian Red Boy and Capone and all of it. This is not a series of random, unrelated incidents. This is a sustained campaign of disrespect against a man and a legacy. And according to his own brother, it may have started before the first shot was even fired. But here's what really happened, or at least what the internet is saying when these dots get connected. [music] People started putting together the timeline, Black Sam's red shirt theory, the mural attacks, the grave marker situation, and they started asking, is this beef that literally went from the streets to a murder to the murals to the grave? Is there a faction of Bloods that has decided that Nipsey Hussle, even in death, even 6 years later, is still an enemy? When Black Sam's interview dropped in August 2024, the internet went absolutely feral. No cap. Clips got clipped and recirculated a thousand times. The red shirt comment alone had people going crazy in comment sections from here to Atlanta. And it broke down on multiple fronts simultaneously. Front one, conspiracy theories got louder. People who had always believed Nipsey's murder was bigger than Eric Holder, that Holder was a pawn, not a mastermind, felt validated because if a man came through that alley in a red shirt in [ __ ] territory on a Sunday when the store was busy and the protocol slipped, someone planned that. Someone knew the [music] window. Someone knew what day, what time, what shirt to wear to blend into a Blood neighborhood after the job was done. Front two, [music] people started digging into the grave situation. Videos of the empty grave site started circulating again. The Find a Grave Memorial page for Nipsey had a user-submitted photo from October 9th, 2025 with a note that the grave marker appears to no longer be there. That single note sent people into a spiral. Screenshots, threads, [music] YouTube videos, TikTok breakdowns. Everybody wanted to know what happened to that tombstone. Front three, the question of Black Sam's response to the grave situation started pulling serious views and engagement, and that's the content you're watching right now, gang, because Black Sam didn't just sit silent on this. The man who lost his brother, who helped organize a 25-mile procession through Los Angeles, who sat in that big boy interview and held back tears while laying out his theory about who really sent the shooter, that man reacted to the idea that somebody went to his brother's grave and took out the marker. And what Black Sam's reaction communicates, though whether through direct words or through his energy, his posture, his documented grief, is that this family has had to fight for Nipsey's dignity at every single step. They couldn't find a church to host the funeral. Black churches, black preachers said no. They had to call in favors from LeBron James and Roc Nation just to get the Staples Center. They finally put a grave marker down in 2024, and within roughly a year it was gone. The Marathon fam has not continued in peace. It has continued under fire. Y'all, let me zoom out for a second because this is bigger than Nipsey. This is bigger than Bloods and Crips. This cuts to something fundamental about what we allow to happen to our icons and what it says about us when we let it happen. Nipsey Hussle was not just a rapper. He was a functioning model of what black ownership and community investment can look like even when you come from the bottom. He bought property on Crenshaw. He opened a co-working space called Vector 90 in his own neighborhood. He had a STEM program for young people in Watts. He was scheduled, literally scheduled, to meet with the LAPD the week after he died to discuss gang intervention strategies. The government met with his team after his death and acknowledged that the meeting he was going to have was legitimate and important. They killed all of that, and now someone is going after the grave. Here's the real tea. The pattern of attacks on Nipsey's legacy reveals something that the culture often refuses to say out loud. There are people, real people, in real neighborhoods, who feel that destroying Nipsey's memory is a power move, a statement that as long as his face is on a wall, as long as his name is on a tombstone, as long as the 60s or anybody aligned with the [ __ ] side of LA can point to his grave and say, "That's ours." It's a threat to certain people's sense of turf and identity. And that's the most heartbreaking part of all of this, because [music] Nipsey himself was actively trying to dismantle that exact logic. He was trying to show that the block is not [music] worth dying over when you don't own the block. He was trying to show a generation of young men that the way out isn't betraying where you came from. It's buying it back. But the streets don't always receive the message in time, and some people would rather tear down the messenger than hear what he had to say. Black Sam has been carrying this weight for 6 years. 6 years of being the older brother who has to be the spokesperson and the guardian and the business partner and the grieving family member all at once. He's working on an eight-episode documentary about his brother's life. He has refused to sell the creative control of [music] that project to anyone, turned down money, turned down major offers, because he said the creative is not for sale. [music] A Nipsey and Bino Rideaux collaborative album is reportedly coming. The Marathon brand continues, but the man can't even visit his brother's grave and see a tombstone standing there. And that is what we need to sit with. So here's where we land, gang. Keep it 100 with yourselves about what this situation is really revealing. And it's revealing that the beef Nipsey was born into did not die when he did. It actually intensified, because when you're alive and in the streets, the rules of engagement, however brutal [music] they are, still apply. When you become an icon, when your face is on murals across the world, when your name gets streets named after you, when Kendrick Lamar brings Crips and Bloods together on stage and invokes your name in the same breath as Kobe Bryant, that's when you become something that certain people feel they need to keep attacking, because your legacy is bigger than the gang, and some people can't accept that. It's also revealing the failure of the unity moment that happened right after Nipsey died. Remember that? April 5th, 2019. Less [music] than a week after the murder, Crips, Bloods, bounty hunters, deuces, all marching together from Crenshaw to the Marathon clothing store. It was called historic. People cried. The whole country watched, and then slowly, quietly, the murals started getting tagged. The grave marker went missing. Indian Red Boy got shot on IG Live. Everything that unity moment was supposed to represent got chipped away piece by piece. And Black Sam, a man who watched his brother get buried, who helped carry that casket, who has been fighting every day since to protect the legacy, has to react publicly to the news that the stone marking where his brother rests is gone. The Marathon continues, but the road just keeps getting harder. Somebody needs to answer for this. Not just in the street sense, in the human sense, because when a civilization can't protect the graves of its greatest people, it's telling you something about where its values actually are. Real recognize real, fam. And right now, what's happening at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills is not real. It's not right. And every single one of y'all watching this needs to be asking [music] the same question Black Sam is asking. Who did this, and what are we going to do about it? Drop your thoughts in the comments. Share this if you respect the legacy, and subscribe because we're going to keep breaking this down. No filter, no cap, maximum respect for the real ones. The Marathon continues. Long live Nipsey.