This past Friday, media maven Karen Civil’s Live Civil imprint teamed up with Lil Wayne’s Trukfit clothing line to bring a merry Christmas to over 500 students in Haiti. Scholastic Corporation and L’union Suite also pitched in to add to the holiday joy! During the Live Civil Christmas Giveaway, each child was gifted an outfit from Trukfit, as well as a Live Civil Thinking Cap from Karen’s partnership with New Era. Haitian-American professional boxer Andre Berto even surprised the kids by dressing up as Santa Claus and passing out toys, and Scholastic donated a book to each of the 500 children, while Karen did a live reading of her new book, Be You & Live Civil. This all went down at the Live Civil playground, something Karen has been working hard at building in Haiti since her 30th birthday in 2014.
(Photo) Chris Brown Gift A Single Mom And Her Family A New Car For The Holidays
Chris Brown has made it clear he’s all about giving back this holiday season. So far he has given out turkeys to families in need for Thanksgiving, put plans in place to donate a portion of his album sales to Children’s Miracle Network, and most recently gave out gifts to children at the The Boys & Girls Club in Hollywood. While at the Boys and Girls club, Brown gave one special mom a huge gift to make her holidays just a brighter. Read more below.
(Video) YG Feeds The Needy On Thanksgiving With Compton Mayor Aja Brown
On behalf of his charity 4Hundredwayz, YG teamed up with Bompton Compton mayor Aja Brown to feed the homeless this Thanksgiving. It’s so great to see how many celebs get into the giving spirit this time of year! “We just here to get everybody in the spirits, you feel me?” YG said of the event that went down the day before Thanksgiving. “Let them know we out here supporting. We’re helping out, doing what we could.” Joined by his mom, his friends and more, the crew fed 500 families from their hometown! So dope. Check out a video of the day below.
Fetty Wap To Put On Free Show For 1,200 Students In His Paterson Hometown
Despite becoming quite the superstar, Fetty Wap is remaining grounded and never forgetting where he came from. As a thank you to the city that raised him, the Paterson, New Jersey native will play a free concert for 1,200 local high school students on August 27 at Bauerle Field. Announced today by Paterson Mayor Jose “Joey” Torres, tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis to Paterson public high school students only, beginning August 24 at Pennington Park. Both Eastside High (Fetty‘s former school) and Kennedy High will get 300 tickets each for the show, with six other city high schools getting 100 tickets each.
(Photos) Chance The Rapper Surprised A Chicago Day Camp With A Field Trip
With all of the craziness that constantly makes headlines, it’s nice to see some positivity in the media as well! Chance The Rapper has been an advocate to helping the youth in his Chicago community since he’s been on the scene, from throwing free shows, to raising money and more, and for his latest, he surprised a day camp at the Chicago Parks District with a trip to the Field Museum! So fun! “Surprising our first @ChicagoParks day camp today by taking them up to THE FIELD MUSEUM for a special behind the scenes look at history!” Chance tweeted last Tuesday – clearly indicating that there will be more surprises to come! “WE LIT” How can you not love this guy? Check out video from the trip below.
SO Dope! J. Cole Makes Good On His 2013 Promise & Attends Fan’s Graduation
Back in 2013, a high school student who goes by the Twitter handle @princess_simba wrote J. Cole a letter, and it touched the North Carolina rapper so much, he reached out to her via DM. “i read your letter twice now,” Cole wrote to her in July of 2013. “you are so strong, i admire YOU. i will be at your graduation… only IF you get into a 4 year University. go!” A little under a year later, the fan checked in with Cole and gave him an update on her grades, and they were up to par. She’s clearly kept them up since and made good on her promise to get into a 4-year college, as Cole was front and center during her high school graduation this week!
