Young Dolph is evidently doing some good in this world. Two baristas — Britni Brown and Kevin Simmons — who previously worked at the Duke University location of Joe Van Gogh in North Carolina were fired last week for playing Dolph’s track “Get Paid.”
Upon learning of the situation, the Memphis rapper decided to not only fly them to Miami for Rolling Loud 2018 but also gave them $20,000 each during his performance on Friday night (May 11).
Brown and Simmons were forced to resign from their positions after Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta heard the lyrics to “Get Paid” playing over the coffee shop’s speakers.
“Get paid, young nigga, get paid,” Dolph spits.
According to IndyWeek, Moneta informed Brown, who was manning the register at the time, that the song was “inappropriate.”
A rep for Joe Van Gogh’s human resources department asked that both Brown and Simmons resign. In audio obtained by IndyWeek, Brown said, “For [Simmons, a white man] to be fired because of this, it is not fair. I feel like you guys were trying to cover it up as to make it not look discriminatory for firing a person of color.”
Dolph tweeted about the incident the day it happened.
“Whoever that VP is, he don’t give a damn about nobody but his self,” he wrote on May 9. “I guess he was trying to teach the students how to be selfish I guess………smh.”[apple_news_ad type=”any”]
Thats Realness 100!!!! Much Respect for Da Don Dolphy getthefuckupoffme!!!
This is fucking amazing. Dolph is badass for doing this.
That’s some real shit….props
big ups to Young Dolph that’s what up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good move I haven’t ate out in years but wouldn’t want either of them handling my food lom
What a mad cunt, real 1.
This is what its all about right here. Power move, and probably more than what they would’ve made in a year working in that establishment.
Now that’s a real, genuine empathetic human being right there. They probably make 15k a year max working in that piece of shiz coffee shop on campus while they struggle to make tuition and everything else just to eat and survive while getting an amazing education at Duke to begin with and they have to worry about getting fired over a song? Props to Dolph. He basically paid their tuition for a year. Or half of it at least knowing Duke LOL. The college should have done that for them Dolph shouldn’t have had to dude. That vice president showed an egregious abuse of power and so did the higher ups who made this horrible decision in general.
Infact they definitely made out better getting fired and taking the cash at the end of the rainbow lol. That place guaranteed was paying them like 8 bucks an hour if not less we all know how those jobs go.
Duke should be ashamed. Dolph did more for them than Duke ever did.
I wouldn’t have given them shit.. Who plays that at a business establishment? U should be fired.
That’s not right
Get paid