Philadelphia-based rapper iCON the Mic King will run a half-marathon for charity on January 25th, 2009. The 13.1-mile race will take place in Miami, Florida and will benefit the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. Though iCON himself does not suffer from either of these conditions, someone very close to him does, and he has promised to help in anyway possible.

He says, “I was in the train station in New York City this summer just lost in thought when I saw an ad on a trashcan for the CCFA Take Steps Walk and I wrote down the website and said ‘Hey, why not?’ I just felt a need to do something positive, something that mattered outside of me.”

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