{"id":86054,"date":"2016-10-29T10:17:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siccness.net\/wp\/?p=86054"},"modified":"2016-10-29T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T18:18:39","slug":"president-obamas-favorite-rappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/president-obamas-favorite-rappers","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Lists His Favorite Rappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout Obama&#8217;s two terms in office, Obama has been very open about his love for Hip Hop music, and he will be\u00a0remembered in part for elevating the culture\u2019s connection to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the \u00a0President \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allhiphop.com\/2016\/04\/18\/president-obama-invited-common-j-cole-nicki-minaj-dj-khaled-white-house-my-brothers-keeper\/\" target=\"_blank\">invited numerous rap stars to the White House<\/a> as part of the My Brother\u2019s Keeper initiative.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-144\" class=\"ezoic-adpicker-ad\" data-ezadpicker=\"144\" data-ez-position-type=\"under_second_paragraph\"><\/span>\u00a0Sway Calloway spoke with Obama for his Shade 45 radio show. The interview featured the Comander &amp; Chief \u00a0naming his favorite rappers at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think \u2013 Kendrick [Lamar] and Chance [The Rapper] are doing amazing work,\u201d said Obama. \u201cThe girls love Drake. He\u2019s commercially just doing great and unbelievably talented.\u201d<span class=\"t402-elided-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86056\" src=\"http:\/\/siccness.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/download-4.jpg\" alt=\"OBAMA\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/download-4.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/download-4-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout Obama&#8217;s two terms in office, Obama has been very open about his love for Hip Hop music, and he will be\u00a0remembered in part for elevating the culture\u2019s connection to the presidency. Earlier this year, the \u00a0President \u00a0invited numerous rap stars to the White House as part of the My Brother\u2019s Keeper initiative. \u00a0Sway Calloway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2586,22163,34253,20409,22164],"class_list":["post-86054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hip-hop","tag-hip-hop-news","tag-list","tag-president-obama","tag-west-coast-music-blogs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}