i don’t think i’ve processed nip’s death yet. i often romanticize when i look back on my days living in apex, and nip was an artist i listened to thoroughly back then and into the first few years of college. you never forget the things you were immersed in during your teenage years, and nip was a part of that magic for me. i’ve been rewatching his interviews and music videos since his death. when they came out with the surveillance footage, i cried watching it. dude shot him, walked away, came back, shot him in the head, walked away, came back, and kicked him in the head. nobody deserves that, especially someone of such character like nip. just last month, dbaze and i were texting throwback nip songs back and forth to each other and now he’s gone. just like that.
death is surreal as it is real.
the marathon continues…
-ratha, 1:22am, 4.6.19