By giving away Thanksgiving turkeys earlier this week, 50 Cent and the NBA’s Houston Rockets cheered up the locals in the city.
On Tuesday, November 22, the turkey drive was held in front of the Toyota Center, the Rockets’ arena. One Thanksgiving meal per vehicle was provided for visitors, and turkeys were distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Along with food products supplied by Kroger, Spec’s, 50 Cent’s G-Unity Foundation, and others, the Thanksgiving meal also featured a voucher for a future Rockets home game. Only families in need were encouraged to come to the event because supplies were only available to the first 1,000 vehicles.
“I just want them to have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy themselves, you know what I’m saying?” 50 told KPRC at the event. “I’m actually coming in here fashionably. My kids have been here working and putting it together, so I gotta catch up and put in more work so they don’t gotta look at me as I got them out here first.”
The Rockets, 50 Cent’s G-Unity Foundation, and the team’s Clutch City Foundation are working together to help include a wide range of community projects, and 50 Cent’s Thanksgiving donation is only a small part of that.
The G-Unit billionaire has been lending a hand to Houston in a number of ways ever since relocating there in January 2021. He has already donated to the Houston Symphony, the NAACP Toy Drive, the Christmas Eve Super Feast, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
“This event was great The g-unity foundation, the Houston Rockets, kroger, and spec’s,” 50 added on Instagram. “BOOM[.] Helping Houstonians have a Happy Thanksgiving.”
Thanksgiving is quickly approaching, and 50 Cent isn’t the only rapper taking part in a turkey drive. In their home borough of the Bronx, New York, Lil Tjay and Ice Spice hosted a food giveaway for supporters last week.
Fans surrounded the young stars as they presented turkeys to more than 150 different local families and posed for selfies with visitors, as seen in video footage posted online.
“This shit looking active out here… We in The Bronx. Listen, I got a whole lot of turkeys to give out. Police shit. My son Ice is [here]. If you ain’t here pop out though,” Tjay said before taking aim at his detractors. “I know the opps mad they can’t do this.”
A free Thanksgiving dinner and 500 free turkeys were distributed by NBA YoungBoy and the NAACP on Monday in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana (November 21).
