Rapper Pras Of The Fugees To Feed Homeless On Easter

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Rapper Pras Of The Fugees To Feed Homeless On Easter

By Mike Winslow

Date: 4/14/2006 12:20 pm

Fugees member Pras Michel has agreed to help feed homeless people in Los Angeles, where the rapper recently filmed First Night, a documentary on homelessness in America.

Pras will discuss the homeless epidemic Sunday (April 16) at The Midnight Mission, located in downtown Los Angeles.

For First Night, the rapper spent nine days and nine nights undercover as a homeless man in a 50 square block area of downtown Los Angeles known as "skid row."

Pras started filming his exploits on March 26 and finished on April 5, using only the clothes on his back and $9 dollars.

The documentary also contains six inspirational stories from people who overcame their impoverished situations.

[Turntable]

Thats cool from him.

[Guest Guest]

I've been homeless berfore this is good!IT SHOWS NOT ALL PEAPLE ARE BAD/GREEDY!!!

[Guest Guest]

I've been homeless berfore this is good!IT SHOWS NOT ALL PEAPLE ARE BAD/GREEDY!!!

by markwinfield1

[JumpinJack AJ]

Very cool. I like 2 see emcees pull attention 2 stuff like this. They have so much power and most of them don't use is properly or know what they have going 4 them. People in Hip-Hop have eyes on them at all times, u think more of them would shed light on issues like violence, drugs, AIDS, homelessness, etc. Idiots like G-Unit glorify it stuff like guns and add 2 the problem...but people like Pras address issues like homelessness and offer inspiration and solutions. Props 2 him 4 that.

[bigted]

Well some of these rappers like G-Unit give to charities privately though, that's just when people say that Will is a sell out that don't help out the community but he does it privately too without press, right? Btw AJ, I read an article a month ago on Allhiphop.com about how G-Unit is gonna be doing a celebrity golf tournament with your boy Nick Cannon, with proceeds going to kids with cancer so you can't say they don't s***... EDIT: I tried searching for that topic there I couldn't find it, I know I read it on some site but there is an article here about how G-Unit and Luda did something for kids during Christmas: http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5182 I think that the press should cover more of the good things that rappers do and stop focusing on negativity 'cause they're not as bad of people that they make them out to be, some of these thug rappers are like actors, their music don't really reflect who they are, record labels hype their image for high sales, lol, and btw why mention G-Unit in this post?

This is about Pras not G-Unit anyway, there's no need to go off-topic but since we're there.... I really hope that Fugee album comes out soon, we need some real artists like them at the top of the rap world and music world in general on top 'cause there's a lot of boring stuff out there, more innovative artists needed, I personally must admit that I don't like how record labels throw true artists to the side but they want money though, it's the gift and the curse that hip-hop became a billion dollar buisiness to me, it helps talented artists have a better life and that's a good thing but there's a bunch of greedy people out there running these labels that know that negativity sells so they promote it, there's a lot of conscious artists out there but they get pushed off to the underground or the back of the label with no promotion for labels to promote the thug images, the rap game became the porno industry, we need more executives like Russell Simmons that care about displaying the heart of hip-hop not just monopolising off of it for themselves, keep in mind that the executives and presidents of the labels are the ones that give the green light to the artists to release the albums so if they really had any integrity they'd tell the artist to clean up some of their songs before releasing the albums but they know it won't sell so they let the artists release the albums the way it is, shouldn't they be held accountable too? It's just like what Suge Knight did to 2Pac's image is what these executives do to a lot of these rappers out now, change their images so they become more profitable... Labels actually want the artists to be more violent so it could sell it's like the skit on Wyclef's "Carnival" album: "Guys you have to be more gangsta, more bloody, more hardcore, I'm not feeling this, more", lol.... Chuck D said this before in one of his terrordomes that record labels don't care if rappers go around and kill each other, as long as they make money off of their catalogue, I bet more people bought Proof's album this week 'cause he died and it'll be the same way if Eminem kills himself, they'll do a million tributes to him and he'll sell another 30 million albums from the grave putting more money in Jimmy Iovine's pockets, hearing people focus on negativity so much makes me sad sometimes, I wanna hear more feel good stories like this with Pras helping out homeless becoming more public to show that these rappers are human like any of us :shakehead:

Edited April 15, 2006 by bigted

[Vipa]

:word: ted..

Just because they don't get media attention like this doesn't mean they aren't doing it. A lot of celebs do it under the radar.