Time-tested MC Ludacris isn’t a stranger to giving back to those in need (his Ludacris Foundation stays highly active with each passing year) and his latest act of southern hospitality has one Georgia woman singing his praises.
Like thousands of fellow Americans, Therra Gwyn-Jaramillo had recently fallen onto hard times. The self-admitted social media oversharer revealed on Facebook she had recently cut back the posts after her husband died of brain cancer in 2014, was left to take care of her disabled brother, several rescue animals, $4,000 in home repairs and a delayed freelance check put her under the gun. (“There wasn’t a part of my life that wasn’t destroyed – emotional, physical, financial,” she told CBS News regarding this story.)
So when a friend blessed her with a $250 Whole Foods gift card, Gwyn-Jaramillo took full advantage until she realized she had gone over budget at the checkout register. That’s when a “nice-looking man” stepped in to foot the entire bill.
“I had zero interaction with him before he decided to buy my groceries,” a then tearful Gwyn-Jaramillo recalled. “I tried to put things back and he said, ‘I said I got this. All of this. Don’t put anything back!’ He started putting the stuff I was going to put back onto the conveyor belt. I was stunned.”
Naturally, the cashier and several other customers recognized the hometown Hip Hop hero but the understandably frazzled woman was clueless to his identity.
“I finally managed to say ‘What is your name?’ and introduce myself. He said, simply, ‘Chris,’ and shook my hand,” she recounted. “I talked to him through my tears and finally asked, ‘Who ARE you?’ she asked. “He looked at me and said ‘Just a person. Just a guy.’ I kept thinking, ‘Does he know? Does he know he’s an angel?'”
After the cashier informed her of the ID to her angelic donor, Gwyn-Jaramillo said she belted out a “WHAT?” and proceeded to launch into a “white-woman’s rendition” of his 2001 hit, “Rollout (My Business)” while jokingly saying it undid any sympathy from the onlooking black people.
“This event taught me something I thought I already knew. It taught me the true power of being kind to strangers. He’s probably done this hundreds of time. But I couldn’t forget it,” Gwyn-Jaramillo concluded while vowing to pay the Luda act forward down the line.
Read Gwyn-Jaramillo’s equally telling Facebook post down below.
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Something positive and uplifting for a change. What a breath of fresh air.
Times ain’t that rough if you don’t know how to stay under a $250 budget. WTF. She said she has her, her brother, and some pets she has to take care of. And she was going to spend $375??? I remember counting change, taking it to the bank, getting a $10 bill in return. I bought a bunch of on sale food (ramen 10 for a buck and ish like that) and counted down to the penny. I spent $8.95 cuz I wanted to go home with at least a fckin dollar in my pocket. These spoiled clowns nowadays. She better at least gave Chris a BJ in the backseat of his Caddy.
I remember the days when a $20 bill would fill up the tank and get you in a movie and a quick lil meal afterwards. Those days are long gone
Yeah, but wages were lower as well.
Sorry to burst that bubble man, males 20-34 make the same 37k median annual salary as they did back in 1983 except with a 40 year price of goods and living increase.
Hell yeah! What an awesome story for a change. Good for Luda and i hope that woman overcomes her hard times.
This chick got a $250 handout then spent over $100 dollars because she couldn’t add?? How did she expect to pay for it? I can’t remember the last time I had $250 in groceries.
Maybe her inability do do basic math like this is part of the reason why her life is in such a mess in the first place. Also, I don’t really appreciate people waiting for and taking handouts left and right. Still, kudos to Luda, very big of him.
This ain’t anything compared to what my boy Drake did in the “God’s Plan” video. But props to Luda anyway, I don’t see Pusha T helping anybody out. Damn, still talking about Push. Will I ever stop talking about him?
HAHAHAHAHA! Get out your feelings imposter..
Sorry guys, still having an internal war with myself, but I feel like I should let it out here for you guys to see. Hope you guys can feel my pain.
pain felt my brother! pain felt!
rollout
Good shit Luda!
Good gesture. But she needs to learn money management
If Ludacris did a show on Food Network Channel what would it be like ?
So wait, you had $250 to spend on groceries, and you ended up $125 over (or shit… was she $375 over the $250?) by the time you went to check out? Sounds like this lady is a pretty shitty budgeter. If you’re hard on financial times, perhaps stop rescuing animals you already can’t afford to take care of.
She had mad grub lmfao thats 2 carts
Few things about this article.
– How the hell you live in GA and don’t know who Luda is? I think she was faking to make it a more “heartfelt” moment by letting someone “identify” the man paying for her. This way when she posts about it, it will generate more
buzz on the internet because of her reaction.
– Shes been through alot but you can’t keep taking in dogs when your broke. She could of easily sold the dogs off to get something.
-I don’t care what nobody says, REAL broke people aren’t in whole foods. They are in Bravo, Winn-Dixie, or Sedanos. If you spent 250 in any of those stores, they would have to close down 2 registers just to have enough people to restock everything. She chose Whole foods because your more likely to run into people who have empathy and enough money to apply it.
-When you buy housing supplies, you get it in bulk to save cash.
– People need to stop relying on social media for income.
-She is the type of woman that has to give her man all of her money SO IT WILL STILL BE THERE.
Aye LUDA, The PO-PO took my ride!!!!!
375 .That’s it.Not a star but I no i paid a lot of people rent in my day.From the corner. Now the rent man ,2months to kick you out .Who pays for that .Me that’s who.Ex hood hero