{"id":452334,"date":"2025-12-17T03:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452334\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T03:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:27:12","slug":"you-can-see-sza-doechii-schoolboy-q-and-more-for-free-this-thursday-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452334\/","title":{"rendered":"You can see SZA, Doechii, ScHoolboy Q and more for free this Thursday\u2014here\u2019s how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to see some of the biggest names in hip-hop, for free, while giving back to the community? You\u2019re in luck. Each holiday season for the last 12 years running, record label Top Dawg Entertainment hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/los-angeles\/music\/tde-holiday-charity-concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a charity concert<\/a>\u00a0in Watts, featuring performances by the dozen artists on its roster. That means this year, SZA, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Doechii, Isaiah Rashad, SiR, Ray Vaughn, Ab-Soul, Zacari and Kal Banx will all be taking the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will take place this Thursday, December 18, at Nickerson Gardens\u2014the largest public housing complex in Los Angeles. And while admission is indeed free, the concert doubles as a toy drive, meaning you\u2019ll need to bring along an unwrapped gift\u2014whether it\u2019s a toy, clothes, shoes or other donation\u2014for the residents there.<\/p>\n<p>Top Dawg Entertainment is the brainchild of Anthony \u201cTop Dawg\u201d Tiffith, who grew up at Watts\u2019 Nickerson Gardens himself. Tiffith founded TDE in 2004 as a neighborhood record label, focusing on local talent that included none other than Kendrick Lamar, who was signed to the label from 2005\u20132022 and received a Pulitzer Prize\u2014the first in the hip-hop world\u2014during that time. Tiffith and TDE have continued to give back to the community through the years, and in 2024, he was immortalized when an intersection in Watts was named after him.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the show. Besides the artist on the lineup, you can usually expect special guests to show up. This year\u2019s guests have yet to be announced, but in the past they\u2019ve included the likes of Lamar, Travis Scott, Glorilla, Big Sean, A$AP Ferg and even Rihanna.<\/p>\n<p>As you can probably guess, a free concert with talent of this caliber is a pretty hot ticket. In fact, it regularly attracts over 10,000 fans, so we suggest showing up as early as possible with your donation for\u00a0your best chance of\u00a0getting in. The gates open at 10am. (And make sure to adhere to the bag policy so you don\u2019t lose your place in line: Clear totes and plastic bags and small clutches are allowed in.)<\/p>\n<p>The following day, TDE will host a Community Giveback day at the housing development, beginning Friday at 11am,\u00a0when the toys will be distributed to residents. There\u2019ll also be raffles, youth sports, festive photo ops, snow and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to see some of the biggest names in hip-hop, for free, while giving back to the community?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":452335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,47738,2961,224,5337,975,47739],"class_list":{"0":"post-452334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-categories-music","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-news-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115732784303769453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}