Social media has recently resurfaced a joke made about the late rapper Nipsey Hussle that originally aired in a 2021 episode of Family Guy.
The moment causing an uproar occurs in the Season 19 episode “Young Parent Trap,” which premiered in April of 2021. Chris (voiced by Seth Green) tells his parents, Peter and Lois, that he’s attending a music festival. When asked for more details, Chris mentions the expected presence of 2Pac and Nipsey Hussle holograms.
“They’re gonna have holograms of 2Pac and also Nipsey Hussle, who I’d never heard of and then was told to care immensely about,” the character says. In a matter of hours the tweet went viral sparking debate about the joke itself, with many criticizing it while others argued that its intent wasn’t malicious in nature.