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August 09, 2006
Jay-Z takes up the water crises with the U.N.
Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z, the president of Def Jam Records, and a rap artist himself, has joined with MTV and the United Nations to get children involved in the worldwide water crises. He cited statistics that 1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water and 2.6 billion lack proper sanitation.
When Jay-Z had visited Africa on his concert tour he witnessed first hand the water crises. "As I started looking around and looking at ways that I could become helpful, it started at the first thing -- water, something as simple as water," he said at a news conference at U.N. headquarters. "It took very little, very little to see these numbers."
MTV film crews will follow the rapper on his worldwide tour, which begins Sept. 9. "The Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life" will feature first-person accounts of meetings with people around the world who lack water, MTV President Christina Norman said, as reported by the Associated Press and published by The Chicago Tribune.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at August 9, 2006 06:16 PM
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