Fat Joe has teamed up with a popular New York supermarket chain to provide Thanksgiving meals to Bronx-based New Yorkers in need.
Taking to his Instagram on Tuesday (November 21), the Terror Squad leader — a native of the South Bronx — shared photos and videos of himself bagging up groceries for needy families in the borough’s Mott Haven neighborhood.
“It’s all about the people,” he wrote in the caption of one of the posts. “We do this for the people! @upnyc @krasdale @goyafoods.”
In the video, the “Lean Back” rapper (real name Joseph Cartagena) said that he does the same thing “every year.” Check out some of the posts below.
Two years ago, Joey Crack joined Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. and Krasdale Foods to hand out over 1,000 bags of Thanksgiving groceries to families in need outside of his Up NYC store in Mott Haven.
According to Fat Joe, he and his crew managed to make drop-offs at three different locations to ensure the community was fed.
“These people are very hungry, disenfranchised, tough times,” Joe told News 12 at the time. “I want to get rich enough to do this every day.”
The holiday is a special time for Joe, and resident Ross Ortega took note of the rapper’s generosity.
“When you see people like Fat Joe giving back to the communities that he grew up in, like not a lot of them do it, so when it is done it’s very well appreciated,” Ortega said.
But Fat Joe isn’t the only rapper giving back to the needy in New York.
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A bit further north in Yonkers, NY, Jadakiss, and Styles P were honored by Yonkers mayor Mike Spano for their efforts to give back to the local community.
In a speech at a Thanksgiving event this past weekend, Spano said: “You look around and you see Styles and you see Jadakiss. They’re not the only two famous people to come out of Yonkers, but they’re the only famous people that continue to come back and give back to Yonkers. Let’s hear it for them.”
After the crowd gave cheers and applause for The LOX lyricists, Spano also gave a shout out to the rest of the Ruff Ryders crew at the event, which saw 10,000 turkeys given away for Thanksgiving, one of the largest such events in the New York area.
Additionally, Spano claimed that next year’s turkey drive was aiming to beat the world record of 15,000 turkeys.
