"You get on brothers about doing certain things, but then when the brother comes to do something helpful for the community, you knock him for the bad s-t that he did. Example: Spelman. I come down there to teach people about leukemia and help benefit and try to help save lives and try to find a donor for my sister. Yet unstill, instead of doing that and help and teaching our community about a bigger issue as far as healthcare, you want to have a three hour conversation about a f-king video. Now, where are our priorities in it? Why didn't you take that same three hours and educate brothers and sisters up on leukemia and what I came down there for? Now the same fight you are fighting in 2005, are you fighting that today? Because I don't have my sister today! No, I don't have her today! But are fighting that same battle?"
– Rapper Nelly talking about the backlash he received from his 'Tip Drill' music video in 2005 from Spelman College students during an interview with Sirius Satellite Radio end of August 2008.
Nelly's sister Jackie was my friend and I was still living in ATL when all this happened. That shyt really pissed me off! Does anyone remember what Jackie went thru with that Leukemia? Rihanna goes out of her way to get some white lady a donor, music women packed TV days ago to raise money for cancer awareness? Was this too late for my dear beloved friend Jackie? The women at Spelman did not want Nelly to use the venue because of some message in a video! Makes no sense! Stories below........originally reported in 2007.
A leukemia patient in dire need of a bone marrow transplant reportedly has found a donor after Grammy-winning singer Rihanna publicized her case. Rihanna is the in-star and she can also get more albums sold too. I really commend her humanitarian work but is it all the time a celebrity helps in getting a bone marrow donor for a desperate patient?
A certain friend of mine died in the quest for looking for the right marrow for years, yet her brother was the celebrity who was championing her cause! The venues.......imagine ordinary venues would not even let him use their spot to get blacks and other minorities to come out and donate blood. Other blacks prevented him from using their spot. Now Rihanna helps a white woman get a donor in less than 2 weeks. Does that send a race message on how we blacks sometimes don't focus on the right things?Nelly was disrespectful to women in his tip drill video.......yadadadayada, so they didn't want him on their campus! To you ladies of Spelman College in Atlanta, Jackie was even one of you. She even attended there as a current student before her illness got worse. I was in the process of securing a huge Atlanta megachurch to volunteer their premises for a donation day when Jackie passed away. A city full of blacks wasted after this family searched forever for a donor! My friend Jackie is Jackie Donahue, sister to Rapper Nelly........R.I.P
Learn more about Leukemia here. You don't have to be a celebrity to help someone find the right bone marrow match.
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