T.I. and Killer Mike Get Together to Serve Meals to 500 Atlanta Residents

With the help of the Atlanta-based nonprofit organization PAWkids, T.I. and Killer Mike handed out meals Wednesday in the parking lot of the Bankhead Seafood Market to 500 residents of the Grove Park neighborhood.

TMZ reports they also gave several families $500 in cash, and visited a number of homes to drop off two weeks worth of food and hygiene products. Grove Park residents were in need of assistance well before the coronavirus pandemic, but this crisis only escalated the demand for help. 

The neighborhood is considered a “food desert,” a term given to areas where residents have limited access to healthy, affordable food options. The issue was exacerbated when Grove Park’s local supermarket and grocery store Food Giant shut down four years ago. 

T.I. and Killer Mike are reportedly aiming to re-open the Bankhead Seafood Market early next year after buying the restaurant following its closure in 2018. In the meantime, Mike wanted to prioritize feeding the people of Grove Park once their plans to re-open were temporarily halted by the pandemic. “T.I. and I went in and bought a business and wanted to keep it going. And in the middle of that, a pandemic happened,” he told the Georgia Public Broadcasting. “So, whether money is being made the priority is human beings and people. People need to eat.”