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Walk With Shawty Low Saturday
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PHOTO CREDIT: Moye Colquitt
While many might celebrate a just-announced BET Hip Hop Award nomination with champagne, Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo is taking a more charitable route.
The artist born Carlos Walker is planning to be in Saturday morning’s American Diabetes Step Out and Walk to Fight Diabetes fundraising effort, starting in Grant Park.
Shawty Lo will be team captain of the Diabetes Destroyers, an especially personal effort as the member of D4L (“Laffy Taffy”) and solo act in his own right (“They Know”) was diagnosed with diabetes in 2001.
“Basically, I was in denial at first,” Lo told us. “And I just kept on doing the same old thing, and kept getting sick. Finally my family clamped down and started helping me make the changes I needed to make…You know bad habits, like old habits, are hard to change. But I’ve stopped eating fried foods, lots of salt and pepper. [I’m] exercising. I’m living a normal life…The only thing I kind of miss is sweet Kool-Aid and all of that.”
To register to join Shawty Lo’s team, or make a donation, click HERE. Planning to participate in some fashion?
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