It’s taken me a few minutes of staring at the screen to figure out what to say here.

You see this whole time that I’ve been training (it’s been about 3 months now) I’ve been dodging the question of why. I mention an intense moment of wanting to give back that I experienced in Grand Central station at which point a trashcan ad for a Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America event caught my eye. People keep asking me “ok well why this cause?” To which I just respond “why not?” or I get playfully defensive and say “damn! I can’t just do something good?!”

And while it’s true that I did have that moment at Grand Central, the reality of it is that most people don’t engage in these types of things until they hit home in some way, shape, or form.
So the obvious next question is “Do I have Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis?” The answer is no, but someone very important to me in my family does and one time that person asked me if I could do anything for them to show how much I cared what would it be. I promised that person I’d cure them. It’s a very childish thing to want to be able to cure somebody out of love. It’s like when your mom is sick and you keep hugging her hoping she feels better. Out of that love I’ve studied all types of natural healing techniques and I’ve even gone as far as to consider going back to school to become a gastroentologist!

It’s that real to me!!

At the end of the day I’m nobody’s doctor though. What I am on the other hand is a healthy athletic young man and a passionate emcee with a couple fans. I can walk and I sure as hell can run my ass off! From what I understand Crohn’s & Colitis aren’t as elusive as a lot of other diseases in that they are expecting a cure in the next 20 years and since I did the CCFA walk in NYC this summer and then announced I was running a lot of people that I know have hit me up to let me know they or either a relative has one of the two diseases. For example a girl that walked with me in NYC, just days before we walked her brother learned that he had UC. She’d signed up to be a part of my team before her brother even decided he should go to the doctor!

So next you’ll probably ask what do I get out of this. I guess I just get to know I kept my promise and I helped a whole lot of other people in the process. This isn’t really about iCON the Mic King. It’s about Michael King using what he has available to him to do something for someone he cares about and at the same time helping to rid the world of a disease that affects millions of people worldwide.

Truthfully I’m hesitant on pressing send on this because I know my explanation will cause a lot of people to put 2 and 2 together and figure out who I’m talking about so I guess I haven’t fully thought through how to approach this. It’s easier with the blog because the focus is more on me than why I’m doing it. Perhaps there’s an angle to both convey my sincerity but not give too much away? I don’t know I guess what’s most important to me is that the word gets out so I can possibly raise some more money.

So if people want to donate they can either goto my myspace or here. I never touch the money it goes directly to CCFA. Also everything anything that is bought from my online store…all the money (gross not profit) goes to CCFA as well. The final deadline to donate is February 25th. It counts toward our numbers as a team if it’s done by Friday the 16th.

Thanks for the support.

-iCON

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