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Rapper Mad Skillz visits local malls to buy school shoes for kids

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Grammy-winning Richmond rapper Mad Skillz (left) surprised local kids shopping for back-to-school with free shoes. (Courtesy WTVR)

Grammy-winning Richmond rapper Mad Skillz spent the weekend before the new school year buying school shoes for children at Central Virginia shopping malls.

Mad Skillz, whose real name is Donnie Lewis, announced the gesture in a video posted Aug. 22, saying he planned to visit Chesterfield Town Center, Short Pump and Dick's Sporting Goods that Saturday and Sunday.

Lewis said this is something he tries to do every year before the school year starts in Richmond.

He said he was able to help 13 families on Saturday.

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