An 11-year-old boy from south Atlanta is using his music to not only make a difference, but he's also doing what he can to let others in the community know that they are not alone or forgotten.
Dashawn "DFresh" Calhoun raised 700 dollars to bring families in need together for an early Thanksgiving dinner, Sunday.
Four families met at Willie Watkins Chapel in Riverdale, Sunday evening and were served turkey, collards greens, macaroni and cheese -- pretty much all of the Thanksgiving Day staples -- by DFresh and his family.
"It's a blessing to have the honor to come out and eat and celebrate together," he told 11Alive.
Last year, he was at a YG Movement community event helping give away turkeys when he wondered how some of the families would be able to cook them. So this year, he and his family took the work out of it and prepared dinner.
The families were chosen from schools DFresh performed at this year, as he made his rounds at 10 schools in Metro Atlanta performing his song, "Pants Up, Guns Down."
One mother of six said although she's employed, like many others, she's living paycheck to paycheck, and this meal came right on time.
"I work so hard that I'm almost in a bubble, that no one pays attention to me because I always make sure that the kids are clean and the kids are well taken care of, and no one ever just looks and said, well that's a family in need," Marqueceia Brittain said.
Brittain continued, "This food was so good, and I'm so grateful. Me and my kids actually got to fellowship amongst people that we don't know, and then hearing the young man saying what he stands for, that meant a lot to me because he's going to change this generation. The things that we see on the news everyday, what he stands for, with the help of others, he's going to change what we see everyday I mean it's going to completely change it."
For DFresh, it's about staying positive and staying humble.
"Always support your brothers and sisters out there because you never know what they are going through," he said.
"You never know where life is going to take you. You never know when the table are turned so it's always good to reach back out and to be a blessing," said Pastor Sylvania Watkins of Greater Breakthrough Christian Ministries, who is also DFresh's grandfather.
DFresh will head to Miami in December for his next performance.
