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Flavor Flav has joined the growing number of celebrities who are doing everything they can to help the victims of the Los Angeles wildfires.
The Public Enemy rapper recently teamed up with GoFundMe and the Black Music Action Coalition (BMAC) to help raise funds for Black families in Pasadena and Altadena who were displaced due to the Eaton fire. Flavor Flav also wants to donate funds to “community-based nonprofits and other community projects."
“It’s been kind of inspiring to me to see people come together right now to lift each others’ spirits,” Flavor said in an Instagram video on Monday, January 20.
“There’s not enough being done for the Black families and the communities," he continued. "So I partnered up with GoFundMe and the Black Music Action Coalition to have one GoFundMe campaign to immediately help all of those that’s in need.”
You can find a list of all the individual families impacted by the fires here. Flavor Flav is one of several artists who have shifted their focus toward Los Angeles in the aftermath of the wildfires in Los Angeles County. The Game, Denzel Curry, Doja Cat, Beyoncé, Snoop Dogg and more have all launched campaigns to raise funds, gathered supplies and collected donations for families who have been affected and the first responders who have put their lives on the line to put out the flames. Jhené Aiko, who was also impacted by the fires, also helped provide temporary relief to first responders by teaming with the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and mobile massage service Manly Handz to provide massages for firefighters.
In addition Flavor Flav, other artists are getting creative with their efforts to help the victims. André 3000 recently dropped a fresh song as part of a new project called Staying: Leaving Records Aid To Artists Impacted By The Los Angeles Wildfires. The 98-track compilation album will raise funds for the victims. Meanwhile, artists like Lil Baby, Jelly Roll, Gwen Stefani and more will band together to perform live at the "FireAid Benefit Concert" on January 30 at the KIA Forum.
