Golden State Warriors superstar point guard Steph Curry is taking his shot at podcasting. Launching yesterday, Curry’s 15 Minutes From Home is a different take on an old format. Each episode takes place following a Warriors game in which Curry rides home with a celebrity guest. The first guest on the show was supreme funny man, Kevin Hart, taking part in a two-episode chat. Subsequent episodes feature names like Georgia politician and activist Stacey Abrams, and actor-musician Daveed Diggs. However, episode three features a legend gone too soon: Nipsey Hussle.
Back in 2018, Curry made an episode with Hussle for his previous series, 5 Minutes From Home. The episode racked up over 2.5 million views on YouTube, and fans wanted more. However, Hussle was gunned down just eight months later in South Los Angeles, aged 33.
Now, more than three years later, Curry has released an unheard recording of the two from back in 2018.
Curry and Hussle Revisited
The two discuss Hussle’s past in Los Angeles. The rapper talks about growing up in “the peak” of unforgiving south-central Los Angeles. Hussle says that the 1992 Rodney King riots “happened in our backyard”, leaving the eight-year old Nipsey with memories of flames and destruction. Still, Hussle persevered, started rapping over Snoop Dogg beats and attending open mics in his teens.
At the time of recording, Hussle’s final album Victory Lapwas in production. In fact, it was his debut album and the only released in his lifetime. Regarding the album, the road to it, and the devastating highs and lows on the way, Hussle tells Curry:
“I’m sure in your own way you can relate to looking at basketball, from not being a professional, just being a young kid with a dream and being somebody that got a passion for the game and then looking at where you’re standing now.
And for you to tell that story and to flashback to that young version of yourself and re-identify with those emotions — that’s how I look at the album… I wanted to be a rapper. I wanted to speak on a platform. And all the process to get here, that shit wasn’t no straight line. It was ups and downs and setbacks. I would assume as an athlete, you deal with injuries, politics in sports but when you get to where you’re going and take a moment to step back, that’s what I look at [Victory Lap] as. The reflection.”
