{"id":2438076,"date":"2026-05-30T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2438076"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:38:26","slug":"sacramento-rapper-raises-awareness-on-fentanyl-crisis-through-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sacramento-rapper-raises-awareness-on-fentanyl-crisis-through-new-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento rapper raises awareness on fentanyl crisis through new music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A new effort is underway to reduce Sacramento&#8217;s drug overdose crisis.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,400 people in Sacramento have died from fentanyl in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>Local Christian rapper Exoduzmusic says he was inspired to write a song about fentanyl after seeing so many tragedies in his South Sacramento neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see addictions, I hear about overdoses all the time, I see people that are dying,&#8221; Exoduzmusic said.<\/p>\n<p>The performer is now shooting a music video in the neighborhood to help raise awareness about the dangers of the potentially deadly drug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of times in hip hop, a lot of people are glorifying the drugs and glorifying that lifestyle, so I just want to do something different and show them, &#8216;look, there&#8217;s a different side to rap,&#8217; &#8221; Exoduzmusic said.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa White is among those participating in the video performance. She says one of her family members died due to an overdose of the drug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really heartbreaking,&#8221; White said.<\/p>\n<p>Just this year, the Sacramento County coroner says 61 people died from fentanyl related overdoses, and last year, 253 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s too many for Sac County,&#8221; White said. &#8220;I think we have a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State Attorney General Rob Bonta says keeping fentanyl off the streets is a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since 2022, the DOJ has seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, more than 7,000 pounds of fentanyl powder,&#8221; Bonta said. &#8220;That&#8217;s enough to kill every Californian 40 times over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Exoduzmusic is hoping his song will help prevent any more families from the sadness of losing a loved one to fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we start making noise, we start raising about this issue, then I feel like we can make a difference,&#8221; Exoduzmusic said.<\/p>\n<p>The state attorney general says more than 620 people have been arrested across California in connection with fentanyl sales and distribution in the last four years.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cbsnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new effort is underway to reduce Sacramento&#8217;s drug overdose crisis. More than 1,400 people in Sacramento have died from fentanyl in the last five years. Local Christian rapper Exoduzmusic says he was inspired to write a song about fentanyl after seeing so many tragedies in his South Sacramento neighborhood. &#8220;I see addictions, I hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2438077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[362892],"class_list":["post-2438076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-sacramento"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Sacramento-rapper-raises-awareness-on-fentanyl-crisis-through-new-music.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438078,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438076\/revisions\/2438078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}