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Tory Lanez Launches The ‘Tory Lanez City Fund’ To Help COVID-19 Relief Efforts

Tory Lanez wants to use the success of “Quarantine Radio,” the singer-rapper’s informal Instagram Live show to help families who are currently struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday (May…

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NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 27: Tory Lanez discusses his creative process during BMI’s How I Wrote That Song 2018 on January 27, 2018 in New York City.

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Tory Lanez wants to use the success of "Quarantine Radio," the singer-rapper's informal Instagram Live show to help families who are currently struggling during the coronavirus pandemic.

On Monday (May 4), the Grammy-nominated artist announced that he's launching the Tory Lanez Dream City Fund to benefit Covid-19 relief efforts, as CNN reports.

Lanez's fund is a collaboration between  The Dream City Project, which in 2012, Lanez founded alongside his father. They launched the project to assist with inspiring and mentoring youth, and a Los Angeles-based charity called the Dream Center,

Together, the organizations will raise funding to provide meals and diapers for marginalized families in LA and various communities nationwide. The singer-rapper and producer has pledged to pay for the first 50,000 diapers, to start, which Amazon Music has promised to match.

"It's very important for any artist to give back because at some point you were regular, too. At some point, you were a regular person just like everyone else," Lanez said. "I always tell artists people feel exactly how you (felt) when you were in that place."
Speaking to CNN from Los Angeles last week, Lanez said he felt compelled to assist struggling families because it wasn't too long ago that he was struggling himself.