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Hopefully before the close of the year, Nipsey will release his debut album South Central State Of Mind. From my P.O.V., the project could’ve been out sooner if Epic didn’t drop the ball on “Hussle In The House“. But that’s a whole ‘nother story.  Anyway, 1515 caught up with Nip and allowed him to speak on the concept of the LP.

“Regardless of people’s opinion about it, the dominant culture in L.A. is gang-banging,” Nipsey, a Crip, said about “Blue Laces,” a song from his LP. “Us being young dudes in our 20s, we not the cause of that. We was born into this culture. We reacted to it from the perspective of survival. I feel like that record, ‘Blue Laces,’ speaks on the realness of that culture. We not the cause of this. This is what led us into that mentality.”

“I’m kinda revolving around that concept on a lot of records on that album,” he said. “On the state of mind in growing up in L.A. Whether you from Compton, Watts, Long Beach, the east side, west side, it’s a state of mind that’s way more powerful than an individual. I might feel a certain way personally, but this is what it is.