Taste Flav is working to assist Black households who have been displaced by the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles.
The rapper took to his social media on Monday to announce that he has teamed up with GoFundMe and the Black Music Motion Coalition for the fundraiser.
“So lots of y’all have helped within the aftermath of the LA Fires,,, so lots of y’all have acquired assist. However there’s SO MANY extra that REALLY want your assist,” he wrote on Instagram. “It’s been inspiring to see so many individuals come collectively as one to elevate one another up, and I simply need to spotlight one side of the bigger LA group in dire want.”
Taste Flav continued, “Not sufficient is being carried out for the Black households and group within the aftermath of the California fires. I’ve partnered up with GoFundMe and the Black Music Motion Coalition to create ONE essential GoFundMe marketing campaign to right away assist these in want. I urge not solely Black artists and musicians and creators, however EVERYONE to come back collectively and proceed to assist these in nonetheless in determined want. Hyperlink in bio to donate.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, the GoFundMe had raised greater than $40,000. The fundraiser’s aim is to amplify “the collective efforts to generate funds in assist of Black households as they navigate displacement, lack of earnings, grief, important wants within the short-term as they search to rebuild.”
“The Black group in Altadena shares a wealthy, historic, and resilient legacy, one spanning a number of generations,” the GoFundMe’s description learn. “They paved a manner for themselves by the Nice Migration, segregation, redlining, and extra to determine a group the place their households may construct, develop, and have a good time life collectively. Now, generations later they face an unimaginable tragedy introduced on by the LA county wildfires.”
Taste Flav is amongst a number of celebrities serving to to supply assist to L.A. residents impacted by the wildfires, which initially broke out on Jan. 7 and destroyed hundreds of buildings and houses. Quite a few artists are additionally set to carry out at FireAid, an upcoming profit live performance for the fires.