Within minutes of going live, free tickets for Nipsey Hussle's public memorial service at Staples Center on Thursday were gone, and some who scooped up tickets sold four of them online for $400.
Slain rapper Nipsey Hussle at an NBA basketball game last year. Free tickets for his public memorial service at Los Angeles' Staples Center were gone within minutes of going live Tuesday morning, but some tickets were sold on eBay for as much as $100 a piece. service Thursday at Los Angeles’ Staples Center were sold out Tuesday morning within minutes of going live, and many people used the opportunity to make big bucks by selling them online.
On EBay, four tickets for Thursday’s “Nipsey Hussle Celebration of Life” service were sold for $400. In the item description, the ticket seller specified that the buyer would receive their tickets by Wednesday.Tickets for the slain rapper’s memorial were available to California residents only at 10 a.m. today on axs.com, with a four-ticket limit per person.are encouraged to arrive early because of large crowds and will be subject to metal-detector screenings and other searches.
Following Thursday’s Staples Center event, which starts at 10 a.m., a 25.5-mile funeral procession will take place through Inglewood, South Los Angeles and Watts. It will begin at Staples Center, travel south to East 108th Street, west to La Brea Avenue and Manchester Boulevard, north to the Marathon Clothing store where Hussle was gunned down March 31 before ending at the funeral home in the Crenshaw district.
On Friday, Los Angeles council members will adjourn at City Hall to honor the slain rapper. Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson is expected to introduce legislation to name the Crenshaw Boulevard and West Slauson Avenue intersection “Ermias ‘Nipsey Hussle’ Asghedom Square.”
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