Octopizzo meets with legendary political hip hop influencer Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr

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Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr is also an influential member of political hip hop and a President of the Hip Hop Caucus which rapper 2 Chainz is its spokesperson and famously known for his campaign Vote or Die which helps people to exercise their right to vote.

He has been featured in such media outlets as CNN, MSNBC, BET, Huffington Post, Newsweek, The Nation, MTV, AllHipHop.com, The Source Magazine, Ebony and Jet, Al Jazeera, BBC, C-Span, and Hardball with Chris Mathews and featured in the Washington Post, The New York Times and VIBE magazine.

Rev Yearwood | www.hiphopcaucus.org

In 2010 he was named one of the 100 most powerful African Americans by Ebony Magazine, and one of the 10 Game Changers in the Green movement by the Huffington Post.  He was also named to the Source Magazine’s Power 30, Utne Magazine’s 50 Visionaries changing the world, and the Root 100 Young Achievers and Pacesetters.

 

Yearwood was with Octopizzo in Washington DC and took time to have a lengthy talk with the Kenyan rapper who is currently on tour in the United States of America.

Octopizzo | Instagram

It is not clear the real reason why Octopizzo met up with the Lennox Yearwood but it is milestone for him to meet up with the hip hop legend who is known to have worked with artistes like 2 Chainz, P.Diddy, Keyshia Cole, T.I and now Octopizzo.

 

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