Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
An English rapper’s insistence on paying homeless people to be extras in his music video has resulted in a long-lost family reunion.
Back in August, Manchester-based musician Bugzy Malone was shooting a music video for his song called “Run”.
Instead of recruiting actors for the shoot, however, he wanted to feature some of the city’s rough sleepers as a means of spotlighting homelessness.
“We went out and got proper homeless people. We had a chance to chat [with] them and give them a little something,” Malone told BBC 1Xtra’s DJ Target in the video interview below. “We got proper people off the streets of Manchester in there.”
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After the video was published, Malone received an email from a local mother who recognized one of the homeless men as her missing son.
The young man had reportedly been missing for almost a year – and his appearance in the video prompted his mother to go out and find him.
This is an incredible story.
Here’s how @BugzyMalone‘s music video for ‘Run’ helped to reunite a homeless man in Manchester with his family.
Bugzy joins @DJTarget from 7-9pm to break down his ‘B.Inspired’ album. #AlbumsOf2018 pic.twitter.com/On1vDbOY3R
— BBC Radio 1Xtra (@1Xtra)
Malone then goes on to say in the interview that the homeless man later ended up in the hospital after trying to commit suicide.
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As the mother was at his bedside, she showed her son all of Malone’s social media posts…
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