Chance The Rapper Joins #SaveChicago Campaign To Help Stop Violence

Chance The Rapper wants to stop the violence in his hometown of Chicago and he recently joined forces with a local campaign to do just that.

While Chicago is known for its heavy gun violence, most recently popularized in the mainstream by Chief Keef, Chance has been using his lyrics, interviews and social media outlets to make people aware of the seemingly endless shootings and murders.

As reported by XXL, Chance used this past Memorial Day weekend to help his father start a social media campaign to combat the escalating murder rate.

Chance took to Twitter using the hashtag #SaveChicago while a grassroots campaign took to the streets with posters and banners that read #SAVECHICAGO.

The Chi-Town rapper feels as though his participation with the campaign aided the city's 42 hours of peace and non-shootings.

Chance The Rapper later used his Twitter to issue a statement on the campaign.

"When I was in LA My pops asked me to help with a project. He was tryin to get Community Org's in CHI to prevent every murder on Memorial Day. He had talked to Churches, Schools, Outreach Prog's and Business's, trying to get them to commit to saving every life possible yesterday. The plan was to get these mass numbers of people out on street corners Friday night with posters and banners with the plea "#SAVECHICAGO." His plan was to get radio stations like @WGCI and @Power92Chicago to say "PUT YOUR GUNS DOWN CHICAGO" every hour on the hour the week before. All he asked of me was to say something on social media. And so I did ambiguously through tweets that hinted at an album, or a song #MAY23rd. And even though I was outta town I checked in constantly. Come to FIND OUT WE WENT 42 HOURS FROM THURSDAY TO SATURDAY NIGHT W/O ONE SHOOTING."

He also tweeted links to articles about the campaign's good work.

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