Boost Mobile and Rock Corps Rock Atlanta with Free Hip Hop Concert

While driving down one of Atlanta’s various Peachtree’s, you may have noticed billboards with the words “YOU’VE GOT TO GIVE TO GET”; and if you were intrigued like me, you wondered exactly what was going on. The billboards were just one of the many ways Boost mobile and Rock Corps promoted community service in exchange for a hip hop concert. There were a number of volunteer sites to give community service, all leading up to a free hip hop concert held at Atlanta’s Fox Theater on Friday, June 16, 2006.

Throughout the spring months, thousands of local “ATLiens” signed up to give four hours of hard work in exchange for one ticket to what was expected to be one of the summer’s hottest shows. Four hours may not seem like a lot of time, but when thousands participate, huge changes become apparent. The volunteer opportunities were limitless and included painting, gardening, and cleaning; site choices were also limitless ranging from Southwest Atlanta all the way to Marietta (which is where I gave my four hours). Each community service site seemed very hip, offering t-shirts, and gloves with the Boost Mobile-Rock Corps emblem, and music; at my site, I noticed each participant working together while grooving to cool hip hop beats and talking about the artists slated to appear at the concert: Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Big Boi, and young Jeezy. Boost Mobile and Rock Corps really went all out to make sure that each participant was well taken care of, offering unlimited bottled water, giving a meal, and of course giving one ticket to an exclusive concert that no one could buy tickets for.