On Friday October 15th, Gucci Mane was scheduled to perform for Sigma Nu Fraternity’s philanthropy event Hip Hop for Hope 2K10. When the rap artist failed to show up, rumors and threats spread campus wide.
Sigma Nu Fraternity at Michigan State University is known to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation in support of breast cancer for their chapter’s philanthropy.
“Our philanthropy events are things that generally anyone can participate in but at the same time have fun while doing,” said Nicholas Bucca, Sigma Nu’s Social Chairman.
For this year’s main philanthropy event, the gentlemen were scheduled to put on a concert featuring Gucci Mane and a plethora of special guests. It was going to be hosted by Computer of Three 6 Mafia's MTV Reality Show Adventures in Hollyhood and originally held at Chandler Field in Chandler Crossings Apartments. The venue changed to Causeway Bay Hotels the night before due to weather conditions.
The event would have raised over 3,000 dollars after all the costs were covered, but the gentlemen were obligated to refund everyone. A great number of people had previously purchased tickets expecting to attend for the great cause.
Bucca played a large part in coordinating the event. After weeks of endless phone conversations and event planning, the fall philanthropy concert was canceled.
The concert was unexpectedly canceled when Bucca received information that Gucci Mane had gotten himself into trouble.
“He violated his drug probation in Atlanta, GA and was arrested and sent to a 28 day rehab period” said Bucca.
This occurred around 8pm on Thursday October 14th, the night before his scheduled concert at MSU.
“He was arrested for doing cocaine” said Bucca.
The doors were supposed to open at 6:30pm on the Friday of Michigan State’s Homecoming weekend until the fraternity was informed that Gucci Mane would be a no show. A couple of the special guests included GLC and G5 the Jett. The local special guests were Jabb Nostra and Sean Deezy of Street Marinez, and Cho City Zo. The after party was initially going to be held at Club Enso next door to Chandler Crossings.
Promotion videos were posted weeks before the event to encourage people to purchase tickets in order to have such a successful amount of money to be raised for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. They also made their own facebook group and website to promote the show throughout campus. Homecoming weekend brings in many families and alumni whose participation would have been of great help to the gentlemen of Sigma Nu. Unfortunately this also brought many angry citizens.
“People were being out of line by saying that they wanted to break Sigma Nu windows but we knew it was just people talking and nothing happened” said Bucca.
Threats were made to the fraternity after the event was canceled. The blame was solely placed upon the gentlemen who put a significant amount of hard work into the evening. Luckily nothing too drastic occurred and all money is in the process of being refunded.
Molly Youngblood a freshman at Michigan State shared her frustration and disappointment after finding out that the concert would be canceled the night of.
“I was going to go to the concert with my three other roommates Laura, Paige, and Alexis” said Youngblood.
She is somewhat of a Gucci Mane fan but was mainly going to attend the concert for the experience and memories with her friends. She was disappointed because she had been planning this Friday night for quite a while and wound up having no plans.
“It didn’t really change my opinion on Gucci. It’s not like I assumed that he was a good guy or anything. There are so many rumors about why he didn’t come, I’m not even sure of the real reason so I am not too concerned about it” said Youngblood.
She admits that she would consider seeing him again but also wasn’t only going to the concert to see Gucci Mane.
“I wanted to see the other performers too so if there was another good line-up and it wasn’t too expensive, I would probably go” according to Youngblood.
For more information on this hectic event or lack there of, visit ozonemag.com keyword “Gucci” or statenews.com keywords “Sigma Nu”.
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