Lil Baby hasn’t forgotten where he’s came from. The “Heatin Up” rapper took the time out from promoting his new album to donate $150,000 to his former high school Booker T. Washington High School, according to Atlanta Public School officials.
The donation is the first of an endowed scholarship program called “My Turn” Scholarship fund. The fund is a collaborative effort from Quality Control Music, Motown Records, Amazon Music’s Rap Rotation and Wolfpack Global.
“First of all, I wasn’t the best kid at school, right,” Lil Baby told reporters. “So, to get a chance to actually come here on a positive note, be able to be a leader and tell children or be a model for children to be on the right track — coming from this environment you don’t really think you can go far…For me to come back, it ain’t so much of like giving or what I got to give or what I got to say, it’s more to me of just seeing me, seeing that it’s real, that it could happen…but, you got to go hard and get it.”
The first scholarship was awarded to student Vachon Raye Jr., a senior at the high school who plans to play football at Dartmouth College. Atlanta Public School officials will determine who will get the scholarship in the future.
Lil Baby, real name Dominique Jones, topped the donation with a performance of two songs from his album My Turn. The album currently stands at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold more than 170,00 equivalent album units in the U.S.
