Grammy Award-winning rapper Gunna is at the moment touring North America on his Wun World Tour, and he’s bringing his travelling run membership alongside for the experience.
On Monday, Nov. 24, Gunna, in partnership with Beneath Armour, will host a 5K race at Toronto’s Exhibition Place. For US$75, individuals can run alongside the rapper and participate in what Gunna’s crew describes as “a cultural motion that blends efficiency, fashion and group,” simply hours earlier than he performs at Coca-Cola Coliseum.
All individuals will obtain an unique Gunna Run t‑shirt, bib and working towel. As a substitute of conventional race medals, in hip-hop style, all finishers will probably be awarded steel chains and might have fun their 5K with a photograph with the chain in entrance of the Wunna Run backdrop.
All of Gunna’s occasions are tied to philanthropy. Proceeds from his 5K race will help the Nice Giveaway Basisthe Atlanta-based nonprofit Gunna based to uplift underserved communities by service tasks, donations and applications for households in want. He launched the Wunna Run Membership earlier this fall with a 5K in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park with NYC Runs, drawing greater than 1,000 runners.
In response to the excessive curiosity, he and Beneath Armour are actually increasing the sequence to seven North American cities, together with Toronto.
Beneath Armour says its collaboration with the rapper’s occasion reinforces the model’s purpose of inspiring extra folks to get shifting and bringing communities collectively by working.
Gunna’s personal working journey started unexpectedly. In a 2024 Males’s Well being interviewhe mentioned he began working almost daily after being launched from jail in 2022 on racketeering fees, describing working as a cornerstone of his “bodily and psychological transformation.” Final 12 months, on Spotify’s Music podcasthe even shared ambitions of working a marathon (although he hasn’t tackled one but). Followers have noticed him on social media logging miles in L.A.’s Runyon Canyon, which additionally seems in his music video for his hit track “WONT STOP.”
Gunna isn’t the primary Grammy-nominated artist to dive into the working scene. In 2024, American digital DJ and producer Diplo launched his personal travelling run membership and live performance sequence, which has since expanded to just about a dozen U.S. cities, however hasn’t but come to Canada.
As of Friday morning, there’s nonetheless house to join a one-of-a-kind working occasion on Monday at 9 a.m. Go to this hyperlink to search out extra particulars concerning the occasion and registration.
