Fats Joe has teamed up with a well-liked New York grocery store chain to offer Thanksgiving meals to Bronx-based New Yorkers in want.
Taking to his Instagram on Tuesday (November 21), the Terror Squad chief — a local of the South Bronx — shared pictures and movies of himself bagging up groceries for needy households within the borough’s Mott Haven neighborhood.
“It’s all in regards to the individuals,” he wrote within the caption of one of many posts. “We do that for the individuals! @upnyc @krasdale @goyafoods.”
Within the video, the “Lean Again” rapper (actual identify Joseph Cartagena) stated that he does the identical factor “yearly.” Take a look at a few of the posts under.
Two years in the past, Joey Crack joined Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. and Krasdale Meals at hand out over 1,000 luggage of Thanksgiving groceries to households in want exterior of his Up NYC retailer in Mott Haven.
In accordance with Fats Joe, he and his crew managed to make drop-offs at three totally different places to make sure the neighborhood was fed.
“These persons are very hungry, disenfranchised, robust occasions,” Joe instructed Information 12 on the time. “I need to get wealthy sufficient to do that every single day.”
The vacation is a particular time for Joe, and resident Ross Ortega took word of the rapper’s generosity.
“If you see individuals like Fats Joe giving again to the communities that he grew up in, like not plenty of them do it, so when it’s finished it’s very effectively appreciated,” Ortega stated.
However Fats Joe isn’t the one rapper giving again to the needy in New York.
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A bit additional north in Yonkers, NY, Jadakiss, and Kinds P have been honored by Yonkers mayor Mike Spano for his or her efforts to offer again to the local people.
In a speech at a Thanksgiving occasion this previous weekend, Spano stated: “You go searching and also you see Kinds and also you see Jadakiss. They’re not the one two well-known individuals to return out of Yonkers, however they’re the one well-known those who proceed to return again and provides again to Yonkers. Let’s hear it for them.”
After the group gave cheers and applause for The LOX lyricists, Spano additionally gave a shout out to the remainder of the Ruff Ryders crew on the occasion, which noticed 10,000 turkeys given away for Thanksgiving, one of many largest such occasions within the New York space.
Moreover, Spano claimed that subsequent 12 months’s turkey drive was aiming to beat the world report of 15,000 turkeys.
