2 Chainz made the holiday season bright when he sold his dabbing Santa sweaters and used the $2 million profit to give back to families in need.
He’s not stopping there as he joined former players Kenny “The Jet” Smith and Ronnie Fields at “Four Corners,” an event with the Full Court reFRESH initiative that donated $40,000 to renovate basketball courts in Chicago.
According to the Chicago Sun Times, 2 Chainz sat with the basketball players and other culture influencers yesterday (June 1) at Columbus Park in Chicago to discuss the need for recreation in urban communities.
“What we’re doing is providing an important resource for the younger generation. A lot of the kids don’t have anything to do with their time right now,” the Atlanta rapper says. “A lot of them look up to athletes or entertainers, so when you do these things, build a studio or refurbish a basketball court, it helps change the trajectory in our neighborhoods, along with seeing somebody like myself, speak to what’s happening in the streets.”
Violence in Chicago has been a talking point for many from the city, including Common and Chance The Rapper. Spike Lee made the controversial movie Chiraq last year to satirize the violence in the community.
Hollywood aside, at the reFRESH panel, Hoop magazine writer Bryan Crawford describes why kids are tempted by the streets in his hometown.
“A lot of this violence has to do with just the fact that kids in our community, they have nowhere to go,” the Chicago native says. “They have no positive structure, nothing to get involved in. Some of these parks today, they barely have rims. If you don’t give these kids an outlet, what’s left for them to do aside from running the streets and getting into trouble?”
View photos from the “Four Corners” event with 2 Chainz, Kenny “The Jet” Smith, Ronnie Fields and Bryan Crawford below:
Thats awesome glad to see him giving back its funny if you added up all these famous millionaires who say they rose up from the bottom and shit and they dont give back start up programs to give back not saying give away food or money or anything just places youngins with no direction or young adults who wants to make positive changes can go and actualy become something and make something of themselfs wether it be ball courts studio programs teaching youngins how to produce music job programs to help turn people in directions to feed there families just anything positive to give some of those millions back instead of buying 30 cars 10 houses and a vacation to some exotic place every other week wouldnt hurt nobody having 5 cars instead of 30 2 houses instead of 10 and taking vacations every few months rather than 3+ a month thats still living lavishly i just dont get it the fucks wrong with some of these “artists” like kanye west jay z beyonce taylor swift katy perry and all these artists that think they need hundreds per ticket and need to milk everything for every penny and not even giving 2% of there yearly salary back to the people who made there lifes possible just a sad world we live in where normal people struggle on average making no more than $4000-$5000 a month to a 2 adult household yet these guys can literaly be written a $100,000 check in the amount of time it takes to wipe there ass just a sad world thats why i just laugh every single time i hear some millionaire celebrity praddling on about suffering people as they go back home to there gold and emerald encrusted toilets just too bad its the idiots in our society that just beg for them fuck the price when we should be making a few demands of our own such as alotta these millionaire celebrities donating 15% of there income to help suffering portions of our country to rebuild and restructure same goes for multi millionaire wallstreet traders and investment firms guarentee if we did that there wouldnt be no hoods anymore there wouldnt be no ghettos or youngins killin eachother over fuckin iphones and jordans but no these celebs would all rather just bitch..
shit fuck ur pathetic remarks nigga! dont be fuckin judgemental mind yo fuckin biz n take the initiative!
Damn son, no one’s gonna read this essay you typed. You could’ve just said “That’s awesome glad to see him giving back” and ended it there.
Damn son, no one’s gonna read this essay you typed. You could’ve just said “That’s awesome glad to see him giving back” and ended it there.
Shout out 2 Chainz!!!!!!! Real niggaz do real thangz.
2 chainz is the worst rapper out…garbage music…he may be doing good things and I salute him for that…but his music is trash.