Kangol, hip-hop veteran of UTFO, who has been spreading the word of the dangers of cancer and how it affects our woman over the last several years with his Mama Luke project. Kangol is now taking his fight to health care. He "s been hard at work putting together a heathcare plan focused on assisting artists that might not have healthcare.

Kangol has been working with the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) for over a year putting together a plan that would act as a barter system of sorts that would allow artists to receive healthcare in exchange for their assistance in helping the hospital. The program is called ArtXchange. The idea behind ArtXchange is that artists would earn credits toward their health care by providing their assigned hospital with unique services and in return the hospital would provide artists with the medical services they require. The program was scheduled to launch in NY this week, but unfortunately hit a hitch.

Kangol has told us, "five days before the launch an issue arose that could not be ignored. I learned - as did HHC -- that there is a price for this gift I planned to give to you, as there is a value to the gifts that you and the hospital would exchange.

In America, gifts of this magnitude are taxed, and services that exceed a certain amount would be reported to our Uncle Sam, thereby making you a blip on his radar.

In other words, my attempt to give you the gift of better life could result in the IRS giving you a heart attack. Needless to say, the ArtXchange Program is hereby officially postponed until we design a system that will satisfy all parties.

Mr. Schick, Ms. Weinberg, and I have not given up and believe we will soon find an acceptable solution. We WILL find this solution in memory of Heavy D, Ms. Melodie, MCA, Nate Dogg, Guru, KMG, J Dilla, Big Pun, Professor X... and many others"