You could find worse ways to ease into the Monday holiday than hanging with one of South Central Los Angeles’s most talented. With his proper debut, Victory Lap, Nipsey Hussle has culled years’ worth of mixtape ideas—which copped everything from West Coast funk (think “Hussle in the House”) to G-house and Philly soul—into a pleasingly disciplined joint with guest spots as disparate as Kendrick Lamar and Cee-Lo Green. Spitting about Lambos, diamond-encrusted Rollies or crushing the competition, Nipsey manages to come off as an inspirational figure rather than braggart.
Nipsey Hussle
Sun, 10pm, $20+
Pure Nightclub, Sunnyvale
