{"id":90834,"date":"2017-03-11T06:27:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siccness.net\/wp\/?p=90834"},"modified":"2017-03-11T06:27:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:27:50","slug":"the-legendary-elton-john-asks-for-gangsta-rap-in-vancouver-record-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/the-legendary-elton-john-asks-for-gangsta-rap-in-vancouver-record-store","title":{"rendered":"The Legendary Elton John Asks For &#8220;Gangsta Rap&#8221; In Vancouver Record Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Elton John, who is due to play two shows in Victoria this weekend, enjoyed an off-day Thursday by doing a little record shopping in downtown Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary pop star dropped into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BRbnfdvAHhX\/\">Beat Street Records<\/a> on Hastings Street to check out the selection of vinyl.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t get the head\u2019s up he was coming in. I just rolled in from the back and there he was with his two giant bodyguards,&#8221; said Beat Street manager Lindsay Tomchyshen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tomchyshen said Sir Elton dropped about $200 in store and walked out with a few records \u2014 including a Linda Ronstadt album and a Divine Brown 12-inch \u2014 but he didn&#8217;t find the one album he was looking for.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The first thing he asked for was something by Tech N9ne, who is like a gangsta rapper. That kind of surprised us and threw us off,&#8221; said Tomchyshen, who conceded they didn&#8217;t have anything from the Kansas City indie hip-hop star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2017\/03\/10\/sir-elton-john-goes-record-shopping-in-vancouver-asks-for-gangsta-rap\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90835\" src=\"http:\/\/siccness.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Elton-John-Gangsta-Rap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Elton-John-Gangsta-Rap.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Elton-John-Gangsta-Rap-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Elton John, who is due to play two shows in Victoria this weekend, enjoyed an off-day Thursday by doing a little record shopping in downtown Vancouver. The legendary pop star dropped into Beat Street Records on Hastings Street to check out the selection of vinyl. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t get the head\u2019s up he was coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35641,2651,863],"class_list":["post-90834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beat-street-record","tag-gangsta-rap","tag-tech-n9ne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90834","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=90834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}