No matter how absurd it seemed, if Young Dolph said it, you could visualize it in your head immediately. He’d rap about dropping off pounds of weed on a four-wheeler in one song and playing peek-a-boo with his son in a mansion in another.
In that way, his music mirrored his life. While there was no end to his hustle, it was all to provide for the people he cared for most.
He’d give back to his fans, too: famously flying out two Duke University baristas who were fired for playing one of his songs in a coffee shop to Rolling Loud and gifting them $20,000.
And in his home, Memphis, he founded the IdaMae Family Foundation with his family, a non-profit named in honor of his grandmother, that organizes clothes drives for survivors of domestic.
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