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Wiz Khalifa teams with Atlanta fundraising platform for livestream

July 11 online event will benefit Rise Above Disorder
Pittsburgh Rapper Wiz Khalifa performing at the annual Music Midtown Festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta on Sept. 16, 2017. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Eye of Ramsess Media)

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Pittsburgh Rapper Wiz Khalifa performing at the annual Music Midtown Festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta on Sept. 16, 2017. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Eye of Ramsess Media)
By Melissa Ruggieri
July 6, 2020

Wiz Khalifa is teaming with the Pittsburgh Knights esports team and the Atlanta-based charity fundraising platform Softgiving for a livestream July 11.

The “Wiz and Friends Charity Livestream” will benefit Rise Above the Disorder, which provides mental health services to people of color.

Khalifa is a strategic partner for the Knights and will be the featured personality for the philanthropic initiatives by the team.

For the July 11 event, the “Sucker for Pain” rapper – a Pittsburgh native - will be joined by Twitch streamer Austin (formerly “RajjPatel”), as well as members of Khalifa’s artist collective, Taylor Gang. Fans can donate now and register at wizandfriends.com for a chance to play with Khalifa during the livestream (two winners will be chosen).

For more information, visit https://knights.gg/.

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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