Following the release of his new album, 2 Chainz has teamed up with YouTube for a new series as part of their #YouTubeBlackVoices Fund initiative.
The Money Maker Fund consists of five episodes airing from Monday (December 14) through Friday (December 18), and features HBCU students and alumni pitching their business ideas to 2 Chainz, who put $55,000 into the best ones. In a statement, he explained why the show was important to him.
“With this year being more than challenging to all of us, I am inspired by these courageous students who are still pushing through chasing their dreams and goals,” he said. “The idea behind the Money Maker Fund is simply to add more fuel to the already burning fire of ambition they showcase.”
After a few pushbacks, 2 Chainz dropped his So Help Me God! album in November. The 15-track project included features from Kanye West, Lil Uzi Vert, Chief Keef, Mulatto, Lil Wayne, YoungBoy Never Broke Again and more, and debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard 200.
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During a conversation with Ebro Darden about the album on Beats1, Chainz revealed there was even more from Kanye on “Feel A Way,” but he chose to cut a part of his verse because Ye referenced the 2020 election.
“This record was called ‘Wavy’ at first, and we changed it to ‘Feel A Way,’” he said. “It was way more than that on the record. I trimmed the record, because I knew it was coming out after the election and he was saying some stuff that pertained to that. And there was some other stuff like, this is my song. I told him, I don’t know what else I can say.”
Revisit the album below.
Wow! Congratulations on your racist ass shit. As Latino, I have appalled that people of color don’t call motherfuckers out more for this. If white man awarded $50,000 to white entrepreneurs that would be incredibly racist, and he’ll be excluding people who might have better ideas, or might’ve worked harder towards their goals. I recently was telling you dude who’s wearing black power had that he should wear that, because some like I was wearing white power hat, we would all gang up on his ass. For trying to find equality we need to get rid of double standards.
What’s racist about him doing something for his people? Since your Latino how many black owned businesses you support throughout the year? What are you doing to strengthen the black community? You sound a bit uneducated calling a black man racist for helping black people! He never once launched a campaign gear towards tearing down another group of people. If so post the facts!
what a racist piece of shit, imagine a white person giving out $55k to white entrepeneurs. fuck this guy
Look up the definition of racist and see if it fits him.
But they do
Respect to 2 Chainz for this!! We definitely need to support an encourage black entrepreneurialism.