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Mod Sun's Act Of Kindness

Mod Sun's relationship with their fans extends far beyond throwing guitar picks into the audience and VIP passes

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Mod Sun's Act Of Kindness

Mod Sun, which is abbreviated from "Movement of dreams, stand under none", is an American rapper, songwriter, musician, poet, and author known by name as Derek Smith. Mod Sun's debut album "Look Up" was released in December of 2015 and has been featured with artists such as Goody and The Weekend Hustler. The music he makes falls under the genre alternative hip hop. The top downloaded song on Spotify is "Shoot 'Em Down" which features popular artists such as Blackbear and MGK. But, in my opinion, if you're looking for a song to jam out to in the shower listen to "She Just Wanna Dance".

Just like most celebrities, Mod Sun took to twitter to connect with fans further than performing a show or signing autographs. Celebrities like Harry Styles and Justin Bieber thank their fans by clicking the 'follow' button on their profiles and expect that to be enough communication to prove their gratitude. But, Mod Sun took this further.

If you've logged onto twitter any time between the months of February and May, you've seen high school kids tweet things like "@SelenaGomez how many retweets do I need to take you to Prom?". Most of the time they are super-fans and want any recognition from their favorite pop star they can get, or they are desperate for a date like the time I tried to get Scott Disick to go to semi with me (yikes).

On Tuesday March 28 and 3:37 in the morning @kailarain_ took to twitter and tweeted Mod Sun her own request. It wasn't for him to be her date to a formal event, mail her an autographed picture, or an upgrade on her seats for his next show, but rather she asked Derek Smith, Mod Sun, to "pay her (my) rent."


Without beating around the bush, famous musicians and performers are generally pretty well off and occasionally live over the top glamorous lives. While there is nothing wrong with that, I'm sure we all wish we lived in a house with an indoor AND outdoor pool, the people who have earned such a strong platform have the perfect opportunity to normalize random acts of kindness and charitable acts.

At 3:41 of the same day, Mod Sun replied to her tweet with "how much, u got PayPal?" and then proceeded to tweet a picture of the closed transaction to Kaila of $500 for her rent.

He signed off the transaction with a note to Kaila that thanked her for her dedication to his music career and told her Mod Sun loved her and she had a forever friend in him.

I'm not asking celebrities to hand out money every time they get a twitter notification, although it would be pretty rewarding for Gucci Mane to pay my college tuition, because at the end of the day the $500 dollars was Mod Sun's hard earned cash. What celebrities choose to do with their money can sometimes be remarkable. I would love to commend Mod Sun for helping out his fans in such a personable way.

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