Snoop Lion among rappers paying for slain 6-year-old’s funeral

NBC Los Angeles - Snoop Lion has joined an LA-born hip-hop artist to contribute thousands of dollars for the funeral of a 6-year-old girl who was gunned down in a Moreno Valley garage.

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Sep 13, 2013

NBC Los Angeles – Snoop Lion has joined an LA-born hip-hop artist to contribute thousands of dollars for the funeral of a 6-year-old girl who was gunned down in a Moreno Valley garage.

The Game, pictured below, posted the news on his Instagram account Tuesday. Calvin Broadus Jr., also known as Snoop Dogg or Snoop Lion, contributed an undisclosed amount, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported. Others have contributed more than $5,700 to the cost of her funeral on a website calledGiveForward.com.

“This very sad story hit me in a place nothing ever has,” Taylor wrote.

Tiana Ricks, of Victorville, was holding her father’s leg when men approached the garage and opened fire, relative LeShawn Cook said. They were at a relative’s home to celebrate a cousin going away to college.

Tiana apparently didn’t realize she had been shot. The little girl kept asking if her father was OK, Cook said.

The Game, whose birth name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, said he read about the family’s tragedy while in Australia and “immediately tracked down her mother.”

The Game referenced the Robin Hood Project, an initiative of his to give away $1 million of his money “just because I feel like it.” Tiana is among seven people helped by the project so far.

I “noticed her & the family trying to raise $10,000 for funeral costs…. So I got her on a 3 way with my accountant & now I’m in the process of transferring $10,000 from my account to hers!!!!!” he wrote.

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