Lil Baby proclaimed himself to be a hero in his native Atlanta and the Quality Control star is proving it with his latest charitable effort.
On Friday (June 18), fans captured video of the rapper leaving an area Foot Locker escorted by several employees carrying bags of new shoes. The amount was so much, one on-looker wondered if he purchased the shoes she was planning on buying for herself. In total, Lil Baby not only bought out the Foot Locker, he then headed to his old neighborhood to gift the shoes to those in need.
In an Instagram Story, he explained buying the shoes wasn’t the key to saving the community. Rather, it was a gesture for those who’ve been walking around the area with little to nothing on their feet.
“Buying shoes ain’t what I mean by saving community or giving back !!” he wrote. “That was some shit I did cause I seen a lot of them had on flip flops. When I say save community I mean centers,programs, jobs. You can’t imagine the shit I don’t post…”
Lil Baby Gifts Gunna $100K In A Shoebox For His 28th Birthday
Lil Baby has found numerous ways to give back to his community as well as his friends in recent years. Fresh off earning his second Billboard No. 1 album with The Voice of the Heroes, he gifted Gunna a shoebox with $100,000 cash in it and earned a trip to the White House as the country memorialized George Floyd on the one-year anniversary of his death.
Shoes don’t feed the masses. Hopefully they get their pair signed and keep them as memorabilia that gains value enough to sell off. But damn, invest in property and run a business helping folks get homes, find jobs, get on their feet. Maybe his intentions are pure, band it seems like folks are asking for much. But do the bigger deed. Your name will last longer, if not forever than this gesture.
If Lil Baby wants to help the community, he should start addressing the single parent crisis in the black community.
You’re acting as if a single parent can’t raise a successful human being, it’s not just single parents in the black community yet all communities. So before you go making a bold statement like that get your facts together. Thanks Lil Baby for blessing that community, keep up the great work and I pray that God continues to bless you in every area of your life.
77% of black children in this country are born into single parent households, yet we only represent 12-15% of the population in this country.
You can’t make anyone be a parent IJS
Never said anything about him being a parent, I said he should start speaking about it because the crisis is destroying black communities.
Why should he speak about it. Its been going on for decades. In the zBlack and White communities. Don’t put that responsibility on him. Why don’t you do it. You have ALL this time.
Yeah buying shoes is gonna save the community
He said it won’t save the community, but it was something he wanted to do because he saw people without shoes.
You really can’t read can you bitch?
If you read, you may learn something. Start over.
He bought the community shoes you dumb asses that means alot coming from oakland city maybe you wanna bes that dont know atlanta is just writing messages shut the f$!@ up if you dont know that made some one very very happy either they sold them for money they was gonna rob someone for or lil baby bless them to take off them flip flops thank you lil baby!
Everything that man does is out of kindness and pure generosity why you just cnt let that sink in like somebody of his platform still thinking of the have nots no matter what a somebody who is being truly genuine does there’s always gonna be somethin negative said abt it dnt you know that just makes the flower bloom even more smh everybody got brains but a majority of the human existence dam sure doesn’t use it (common sense)
imagine you a youngin has a rapper (your possibly a fan of) do this shit for you, you’d cherish it for life. This the type of stuff that plants a good seed in the kids, and for that imma give polo G props. Y’all bitch asses that complain probably ain’t even support your own mama or pops.
Wrong rapper, dude.
Facts my G….People always HATING when it comes to someone doing POSITIVE things for their community. People like that must’ve been bullied their entire life!!!! #Salute #LilBaby
Is Craig Mack Lil’ Baby’s father?
Cool of him…. He’s still wack af though *shrugs*
As long as Lil Baby keeps making music, shoes mean nothing and the community will not experience change. His music is the problem..
What does that even mean?
Greatest and kindest rapper alive.
We are the only race that bring our own people down with this type of negativity. No one read what he said it was just a humanity gesture that was a kind act but to the people that had) have a negative comment what have you done for your community? Yet someone will attack my comment when are we gonna stick together even if he open a business to help how many support him or the business. Yet you will go to other non black own business to support….smdh when will we change the way we treat our OWN….IJS
Thats Facts, ignorant Haters, to all those negative giving comments people. What have they done for community. Thanks Lil Baby, u done good
Amen amen
Fart.
If this dude came out in the 90’s wit such an ugly face, stupid name and weak music. This dude would be destroyed for real.
You need a life it’s garbage like you that keeps us down you get no title you get that
r u a hater or do you really believe that its a no-thing to give back to the folks that helped make him wealthy and famous. Shoes may not solve all of the social issues that Black Americans have but I see a lot of folks accepting his gifts to the community. Free used to mean something to get. U make it sound like something to not do.
He’s doing so much more God bless and protect him ??