Crooked, Glasses, Jayo & Soopafly reach out to Operation Secret Santa charity

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http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/12/20/20759294.aspx

 By Chris Richburg

The holidays will be a lot more pleasant for hospitalized California youth, as rappers Crooked I and Glasses Malone take time out to participate in the eighth annual YouthScore Inc. Operation Secret Santa project.

The event will take place today (December 20) at St. Mary's Hospital in Long Beach, California.

Malone and Crooked I will be among a group of celebrities aligning with teens to distribute toys to kids spending the holiday season in the children’s hospital.

YouthScore’s dedication towards making life better for Long Beach youth serves as a major reason for Crooked I’s involvement with the program.

"YouthScore is one of the few program's that has always been active in caring about the youth in Long Beach having positive and creative opportunities to express themselves, so I've always supported them because their cause is a focused on out community," said Crooked I, who has championed YouthScore for five years.

The Secret Santa Project is one of a series of efforts initiated by YouthScore Inc., an organization known for providing opportunities for at-risk youth by supporting and nurturing their natural gifts while creating usable job skills.

Since its inception more than eight years ago, YouthScore has contributed goods and/or services to its projects through its alliance with Long Beach County supervisor Don Kanabe, and the Long Beach Fire Department.

The organization has successfully given out more than 500 individuals toys through donations from local organizations such as Albertson's, Los Angeles Midnite Mission, Food Finders, Ralphs, K-Mart, Pepsi and others.

In addition to Crooked I, the program has worked with numerous entertainers that include Goodie Mob, Warren G, Xzibit, Ahmad, Ghostface and Cappadonna, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Kel Mitchell, Pink, Kobe Bryant and more.

Rapper Jayo Felony, Hip-Hop producer Soopafly and actor Kel Mitchell will also take part in this year's group of celebrity Operation Secret Santa volunteers.

Representatives from LRT Music Group and Ballyhoo Public Relations will also be on hand for the event.

[Jaydc555]

That's good to see.I hope jayo crook glasses and soopafly all spit over a soopafly beat.now that would be banging.

[EFFeX]

Thanks for this story.

[Lunatic]

very generous of them; I know Glasses, Crooked and Jayo well; They seem to be extremely nice and this doens't surprise me at all. I only dealt with Soopafly once for an interview, but he seemed very nice.

[Matty]

good stuff.

[Eddie G.]

props to them

[EFFeX]

We need more stuff like this in Hip Hop, too many people are too concerned with how "hard" they are and are afraid to show compassion. Much respect.

[Lunatic]

I was chopping it up with Glasses today; what a great generous and understanding individual y'all.

[Black Excellence]

That's good to see.I hope jayo crook glasses and soopafly all spit over a soopafly beat.now that would be banging.

Jayo over a soopafly beat by himself would be nice. he doesn't need the other two dudes.

[DPGC23]

THAS GOOD MAN,
DOPE DOPE

DPGC23

[Soopafly DPGC]

Man, Soopafly did it big this year.  This is the most active year he's had in the rap game in a long time.  The man is so generous, giving back and everything.  No wonder everyone wants to be just like him.

[wardy]

That's good to see.I hope jayo crook glasses and soopafly all spit over a soopafly beat.now that would be banging.

Jayo over a soopafly beat by himself would be nice. he doesn't need the other two dudes.

Im sure that soopa and jayp did a track on Crip Hop over a soopa beat

[Soopafly DPGC]

That's good to see.I hope jayo crook glasses and soopafly all spit over a soopafly beat.now that would be banging.

Jayo over a soopafly beat by himself would be nice. he doesn't need the other two dudes.

Im sure that soopa and jayp did a track on Crip Hop over a soopa beat

Yup, the track called "Hurt That Nigga" which Soopafly just absolutely killed.  Some great bitch-checking lyrics on that one.  Jayo rhymed all off tempo and stuff on it.  He couldn't keep up with Fly's beat on that one.