{"id":322851,"date":"2026-08-17T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322851\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:06:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-late-rapper-hollywood-plays-legacy-lives-on-in-bed-stuy-with-14th-annual-back-to-school-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322851\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Late Rapper Hollywood Plays Legacy Lives On In Bed Stuy With 14th Annual Back To School Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bed-Stuy held its 14th\u00a0annual Back-To-School Initiative on Sunday which also honored\u00a0the legacy of the man who started it all.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Frankie Snyder, known as rapper &#8220;Hollywood Play,&#8221; founded the event as a way to give back to children in his community. Families gathered in a Bed-Stuy park for an evening filled with music, dancing, food and school supply giveaways.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Snyder was fatally shot in Queens in 2017. Nearly a decade later, his mother says the event has taken on an even deeper meaning to remind young people that there are alternatives to violence.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI\u2019m just happy that he did this all for the kids, and every year they all come out to remember him,\u201d Snyder\u2019s mother, known as Mama Play, said. \u201cHe just wanted all the kids to know that you don\u2019t have to pick up a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Organizers said the mission is more than handing out school supplies. It\u2019s about creating a positive space for children and keeping them connected to their community.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mama Play says real change starts from within and believes young people have the power to help change their neighborhoods by first changing themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bed-Stuy held its 14th\u00a0annual Back-To-School Initiative on Sunday which also honored\u00a0the legacy of the man who started it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}