Chitown natives Common and Kanye West have collaborated on their best project yet; the two have joined forces to create over 20,000 jobs for the youth of Chicago!
Common’s Ground Foundation has joined forces with Kanye West’s Donda’s House Inc and the Chicago Urban League, to help build 20,000 jobs for the Chi-town youth, in a project dubbed Chicago Youth Jobs Collaborative.
The project is hoping to disrupt some of the chaos occurring in the streets of Chicago with a source of opportunity. Common announced the collaboration during a press conference held Wednesday, April 9th at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He also stated;
“Obviously, one of the biggest reasons our kids are going through what they’re going through is because of poverty. I was doing an event in the neighborhood and there were some kids from Englewood and I said, ‘Man, what do y’all really need? What’s gonna stop this?’ And they were like, ‘we need money. Man, if we could work.’ They want a chance,” via Poppin Lines.
