{"id":17486,"date":"2023-10-24T22:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/?post_type=wfsu-news&p=17486"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:44:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:44:47","slug":"leon-county-commits-25000-for-the-50-years-of-hip-hop-celebration-concert","status":"publish","type":"wfsu-news","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/wfsu-news\/leon-county-commits-25000-for-the-50-years-of-hip-hop-celebration-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County commits $25,000 for the ’50 Years of Hip Hop Celebration Concert’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Leon County Commission has voted unanimously to spend $25,000 to sponsor an event called the \u201c50 Years of Hip Hop Celebration Concert.\u201d One of the event\u2019s main attractions is T-Pain, who grew up on the south side of Tallahassee and became an enormous star.<\/p>\n

The event will also feature the national artists Doug E. Fresh and MC Lyte. The winners of a rap contest promoting a stop to gun violence will also appear.<\/p>\n

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The sponsorship request came from the North Florida Community Development Corporation, whose organizers told the commission that previous sponsorship commitments have not been received yet.<\/p>\n

One of the artists, T-Pain, is from Tallahassee\u2019s Ridge Road and is asking only for travel costs. Here\u2019s Darius \u201cDoc D\u201d Baker, who\u2019s producing the concert:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if we gave him the opportunity, I could just see commissioners walking with him down Ridge Road, where he grew up, where he had to walk past the bus and gunfire \u2013 all types of stuff that he\u2019s faced, and he still made it,” Baker said. “Went to Rickards. He\u2019s from our city, our county.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baker added that the concert has the potential to reach young people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a part of this because I believe in it, and I know the problems that we face \u2013 and we\u2019re facing \u2013 with our youth. When you look at Faheem, that\u2019s his real name, T-Pain, who has sold 15 million albums and 50 million downstreams, I think that we should allow him to actually feed into our youth. They look up to him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The concert will be held at Anita Favors Plaza at Lake Anita on November 10th. That\u2019s the same night as a \u201cFrenchtown Rising\u201d event, which the commission is also helping to sponsor. <\/p>\n

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