{"id":15610,"date":"2022-11-04T21:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/04\/takeoff-police-chief-says-sometimes-hip-hop-gets-a-bad-name\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:08:45","slug":"takeoff-police-chief-says-sometimes-hip-hop-gets-a-bad-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=15610","title":{"rendered":"Takeoff: Police chief says sometimes hip hop gets a bad name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Police in Houston have confirmed the death of US rapper Takeoff after he was shot dead on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Speaking to reporters, Houston police chief Troy Finner paid tribute to the 28-year-old, real name Kirshnik Khari Ball. He said the department had received many calls saying &#8220;what a great young man&#8221; he was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Chief Finner also said sometimes hip hop &#8220;gets a bad name&#8221; and urged artists across the US to &#8220;stand together and make sure nobody tears down that industry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-63480431?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Police in Houston have confirmed the death of US rapper Takeoff after he was shot dead on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, Houston police chief Troy Finner paid tribute to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}