He brought Atlanta star power to the Super Bowl 53 halftime show, and now Antwan “Big Boi” Patton is bringing $100,000 to a venerable institution in the city.
A month after performing with Adam Levine during the big game, Big Boi is slated to announce today that he is partnering with the NFL to donate $100,000 to Atlanta's Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, according to TMZ.
Levine's band, Maroon 5, also made a charitable donation with the NFL. They joined to give $500,0000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Rapper Travis Scott, who also performed during halftime, and the NFL collaborated to donate $500,000 to Dream Corps, a nonprofit organization that confronts social justice issues.
Big Boi planned to announce his donation before the Super Bowl, according to TMZ’s sources, but he needed more time to decide where the money would go.
In January, Big Boi made another investment in the community when he purchased the studio in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood where he and Andre “3000” Benjamin got their start as OutKast, which he announce on Instagram.
The Dungeon, as it was called, was the recording space for Organized Noize, the hip-hop production team behind OutKast. It was the basement in the home of Organized Noize founder Rico Wade’s mother.
OutKast recorded that album, 1996’s “ATLiens” and 1998’s “Aquemini” in the Dungeon.
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