{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Nipsey was an extremely regional artist, the kind of \u201cgot his start selling mixtapes out of a trunk\u201d stories that are all but...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/183950732533/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>teatrodelabsordo</strong> asked: Nipsey was an extremely regional artist, the kind of \u201cgot his start selling mixtapes out of a trunk\u201d stories that are all but impossible now because of the rise of streaming platforms. He had a higher platform than say Boosie or Mozzy because he was in LA and dating an actress well known in black media, but there\u2019s zero reason for a white guy in Portland to know him unless you\u2019re very into rap music </div>\n<p>so like, what he represented that\u2019s so meaningful was that \u201cfrom the \ncommunity/to the community\u201d potential of rap that gets mythologized so \nmuch in opposition to the whole mass media corporate business angle?<br/></p>"}