Kobe Bryant's passing is still something that is hard to believe. It has been over four months since the helicopter accident that claimed his life and people still can't wrap their heads around how one of basketball's biggest legends was taken away from us way too soon. In the wake of his death, there have been numerous tributes all over the world including artful murals that depict Kobe in a heavenly light.

The latest of these murals to be resurrected was recently completed in Bosnia And Herzegovina and it is believed that this is the largest Kobe mural in all of Europe as it is 19 feet tall and 39 feet wide. The creators of the mural spoke to the Srpska Times about why they created the mural and as they explain, it's because Kobe was a hero to them.

Vanessa Bryant was feeling thankful this week that the murals of her late husband and late daughter, Kobe and Gianna Bryant, did not get vandalized during the protests in L.A. this past week. As protestors across the country have taken to looting and destroying some businesses and property as they fight for justice in the police killing of George Floyd, it looks like the Angelenos thankfully left the murals of the city's Lakers legend alone. Vanessa took to her Instagram stories on Monday (June 2nd) to share some photos of the "untouched" murals, some of which also include her late daughter, Gianna.

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She first shared footage of a mural that depicts Kobe and their daughter, Natalia, being saved in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. She went on to share a screenshot of a tweet that read, "They know Kobe is off-limits" along with a photo of a Kobe mural with signs that say "Black Owned" on either side. Vanessa proceeded to post photos of different murals of Kobe and Gigi, both together and individually, that had been saved around L.A. In some of the captions, she wrote expressions of gratitude like, "Kobe and Gigi mural saved," "Untouched Kobe mural," and "L.A. love," along with an abundance of heart emojis. Check out the photos here.

It looks like street artist, Lushsux, has set his sights on a new muse for his hilarious celebrity mash-up murals: Snoop Dogg. For the past month or so, Lushsux has been gaining more and more attention as his most common target, 50 Cent, continues to repost the artist’s depictions of Fif as different public figures, including 6ix9ine, Donald Trump, Post Malone, Mike Tyson, Guy Fiery, Oprah, and more.

Although Lushsux has used plenty of other celebrities as subjects for his murals, 50 Cent seems to be his favourite, likely because the notorious Internet troll is always complaining about how the street artist has it out for him specifically. In fact, he’s become so well known as the troll who out-trolled 50 Cent, that Snoop even identified Lush as “the same artist that be Fuccn wit” Fif.

On Friday (May 22nd), Snoop reposted Lushsux’s mural of him mashed up with Barack Obama, tagging 50 Cent to ask him if it was the same artist. Although the painting is definitely meant to depict Snoop and the former POTUS combined, considering Lush posed the question “would u vote for him?” in his original post, many commented on both posts that it

50 Cent is back again, with yet another mural under his belt. The rapper has been the consistent subject of massive murals painted by the artist LushSux, who includes a good dose of humour in each mural, as each one depicts 50 Cent mixed with another person. 

Yesterday, 50 found the Mike Tyson-50 Cent mural, aptly dubbed “50 THENT.” In the process, LushSux actually revealed that he had been on the receiving end of physical violence while creating this massive graffiti spreads. The artist revealed in repost of 50’s Instagram share that he was actually hospitalized due to the murals, “Unfortunately some 6 or 7 smoothebrains at one time on the street already put me in hospital already this month because of this shit. I dont like to bring up all the bad stuff I have to deal with just to paint some ha ha funny you laugh now images on walls but I guess now is a chance.”

The news of LushSux’s injuries quickly went viral, and resulted in a response from 50 Cent, who continues to respond with the latest mural.

Sharing a new mural which finds 50 Cent’s features mixed with that Oprah, 50 writes in the caption, “get well soon ?nah FT why you paint me as Oprah fool.”

Check out the latest mural below. We can add this one to the ever-growing list of LushSux’s targets, including 50-6ix9ine, 50-Kim Jong Un, 50-Taylor Swift and several others.

Murals have been popping up all over Australia for the last several months, depicting 50 Cent as other celebrities. Muralist Lushsux, who describes himself as a 50 Cent stan account, has shared photos of his countless artworks showing the rapper as Tekashi 6ix9ine, Mike Pence, Mike Tyson, and others. 

As weeks fly by, 50 Cent has expressed his anger at the situation, demanding that the artist cease producing any representations of his likeness on the street. Lushsux refuses to stop though and it looks like things finally caught up to him.

“This guy needs an ass whoopin bad, he still doing this shit,” wrote Fiddy about the artist. Apparently, people took his directions to heart and attacked Lushsux in the street, leaving him in the hospital.

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‘Unfortunately some 6 or 7 smoothebrains at one time on the street already put me in hospital already this month because of this shit,” he revealed.

Hearing about the assault, Fif denied responsibility and issued his official response.

“The artist got [punched] in the [face] that wasn’t me i didn’t do that,” says the rapper on his latest post. 

He may not be claiming responsibility for the attack but he did say, numerous times at that, that the artist should get what’s coming to him. Do you think he’s to blame?

A new day and a new mural featuring 50 Cent‘s face, mixed with someone else’s face. A celebrity, of course. The rapper has become a frequent subject of murals, thanks to the artwork of @LushSux.

The latest mural 50 reposted on his page features the former G-Unit rapper’s face blended with Mike Tyson’s face and instantly recognizable tattoos. This mural follows several: one featured the rapper juxtaposed with Tekashi 6ix9ine, another combined him with Donald Trump, another merged his facial features with Taylor Swift and yet another with Kim Jong Un. Clearly, @LushSux was making 50 Cent murals his full-time job, and Fif was here for it.

As far as the Mike Tyson mural goes, Fif’s reaction was actually pretty mild. He wrote, “This guy need a ass whoopin bad, he still doing this shit.”

LushSux offered a response to 50, revealing the trouble he has to go through to actually create these murals.

“50 seems to want some more walls?,” he wrote on his recent IG post. “Unfortunately some 6 or 7 smoothebrains at one time on the street already put me in hospital already this month because of this shit. I constantly have to unwillingly fight people ( among other insane shit you would not believe even if I told you ) on the street who for whatever cooked reason seem to feel the need to come up to me at a wall and start trouble. It’s tiresome, but it will not ever stop me doing what 99.8% of what everyone else seems to for the most part get a hearty chuckle out of, because they aren’t sociopathic pieces of shit. I dont like to bring up all the bad stuff I have to deal with just to paint some ha ha funny you laugh now images on walls but I guess now is a chance.”

We’ll have to see if this prevents LushSux from creating new murals for the rapper. 

50 Cent has been growing increasingly frustrated about an Australian street artist who has continually painted murals of the rapper as other famous people. Thus far, Fiddy has been transformed into Taylor Swift, Mike Pence, and many others. All of the murals have earned reactions from the television producer and author on social media as he seemingly wants to put an end to the madness. The latest mural may be the last straw.

This time around, anonymous artist Lushsux has continued the trollery with a large painting of 50 Cent as Tekashi 6ix9ine. Fif ended up seeing it and, needless to say, he was pissed.

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Taking to Instagram to repost a photo of the graffiti, 50 Cent issued a threat against Lushsux, claiming that he can find him even though he’s halfway across the world.

“I’m sick of this shit, he think i can’t find his ass in australia,” angrily wrote the legendary rapper. “I’m a have a knot put right on his fucking head.”

This one must have hit especially close to home. Last week, Fif did an interview where he said that he had no interest in working with Tekashi 6ix9ine in the future. 6ix9ine struck back by saying it wouldn’t be the first time Curtis had abandoned one of his sons. With that fresh in his mind, it couldn’t have been pleasant to see this new mural pop up.

50 Cent is getting more and more pissed off (but also more and more intrigued, it seems) with a series of murals in which he’s painted as different public figures. Street artist Lushsux, known for painting various celebrities as other celebrities to produce comedic results, has been on a bit of a 50-streak lately, painting Fif as Tekashi 6ix9ine, Donald Trump, and Post Malone, to name a few. Earlier this week, he mashed up 50 Cent with former Communist leader of China, Mao Zedung, although Fif mistook him for Kim Jong Un. Now, Lushsux has continued “50 week”—which he’s considering turning into “50 month”—with a new mural, and Fif’s really starting to lose it.

“Man look at this sh*t,” he wrote on the photo of “Swifty Cent,” along with an angry face emoji. “TF is wrong with this guy he won’t stop.” He also posted a video of Lushsux creating the work of art, threatening to jump him.

“Swifty cent i’d like to hit this MF right in the back of his head while he doing this sh*t,” he wrote. Prior to this depiction of Fif as America’s former sweetheart, Lushsuxx opted to paint Fif as himself for a change, but with one small, outrageous detail.

“Woooowww fiddy with no brim,” the artist wrote on the photo, which shows Fif donning a navy blue Yankees hat with no brim. Fif shared this piece on his Instagram as well, speculating that someone might be paying Lushsuxx to use him as his primary subject.

“He did another one, on live TF is going on,” 50 wrote. “If i find out, ew let me find out somebody paid him to do this.” Lushsuxx later denied that he’d been hired to do these murals of Fif.

Who should he paint 50 Cent as next?

50 Cent got two leaders of Asian countries mixed up in one of his latest Instagram posts, mistaking former Communist leader of China, Mao Zedong, for the current (although rumoured to be dead) leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. 50 Cent has been the victim of many mash-up murals, having his likeness combined with the distinguishing features of public figures like Tekashi 6ix9ine, Donald Trump and, most recently, Post Malone. Often, the artist will include certain identifiable details in the painting that the subjects themselves possess, such as tattoos or a particular hairstyle. In this case, it was the receding hairline and signature uniform of Mao Zedong—the founding father of the People’s Republic of China who ruled as chairman of its Communist party from 1949-1976—that were combined with Fif’s earnest expression. However, 50 thought that the artist had intended to mash him up with the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, likely since he’s been making headlines recently due to the fact that he may or may not be dead.

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On Sunday, 50 shared a photo of the mural on his Instagram, writing, “Oh sh*t, 50 Kim Jung Un. These people are crazy.” He also managed to track down a clip of the artist, who goes by the name of Lushsux, actually creating the mural, and posted it on Instagram as well. “Damn he made that sh*t look like it was easy,” he wrote. “I want to meet this guy.” 

Unfortunately, since Fif has limited which accounts can comment on his posts, nobody has been able to inform him that he’s actually been turned into Mao. Lushsux himself even confirmed on Instagram that the mural is meant to depict Mao, not Kim Jong Un.

Lushsux did, however, paint a separate mural depicting Kim Jong Un combined with a different celebrity: Kim Kardashian.

“Did kim actually die or is it a cover up of his sex change operation?” he wrote. It was reported yesterday that Kim Jong Un may be dead, since he was absent for North Korea’s most important holiday, The Day of the Sun, on April 15th. He recently underwent heart surgery, and it’s been rumoured that the surgeon had shaky hands, resulting in his death.

Kobe and Gianna Bryan tragically passed away in a helicopter accident on January 26th. The helicopter had six other passengers and a pilot, who also lost their lives. It’s quite possibly one of the biggest tragedies in the history of sports and fans are still trying to figure out how this could happen to such a huge legend. Ever since the accident, there have been numerous tributes from artists, athletes, and fans who were touched by Kobe’s legacy.

This loss has been incredibly hard on Bryant’s family. Vanessa Bryant has been active on social media since the passing of her husband and daughter and always makes sure to pay tribute to them whenever she can. This past weekend, Bryant and her daughters visited a mural in which Kobe is depicted kissing Gianna on the top of the head. In the photo posted below, Kobe’s oldest daughter, Natalia, can be seen posing in front of the mural with a smile on her face.

These tributes to Kobe and Gianna have been quite beautiful and it’s great to see the Bryant family interacting with them. Kobe and Gianna meant so much to a lot of people and their legacies will forever live on.