{"id":202,"date":"2002-07-29T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-29T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/will_smith_defends_slick_rick.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:49:06","slug":"will_smith_defends_slick_rick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/will_smith_defends_slick_rick.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Willy defends Slick Rick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;Where are they now?&#8221; file, Will Smith AKA Fresh Prince has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?current_row=1&#038;tf=tgam\/search\/tgam\/SearchFullStory.html&#038;cf=tgam\/search\/tgam\/SearchFullStory.cfg&#038;configFileLoc=tgam\/config&#038;encoded_keywords=slick+rick&#038;option=&#038;start_row=1&#038;start_row_offset1=&#038;num_rows=1&#038;search_results_start=1&#038;query=slick+rick\">come to the defence<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/music.hsx.com\/servlet\/DetailEnt?symbol=SLICK\" title=\"Slick Rick on the Hollywood Stock Exchange\">Slick Rick<\/a> AKA The Ruler who is in danger of being deported from the United States because of his second-degree murder conviction 11 years ago. U.S. law requires the deportation of any non-citizen who serves more than five years in a U.S. prison. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defjam.com\/artists\/slick\/slick1.html\" title=\"Slick Rick's bio at Def Jam's website\">Slick Rick<\/a> is probably best known for his work with Doug E. Fresh on their 1985 double-sided release &#8220;The Show&#8221;\/&#8221;La Di Da Di&#8221; as well as the rap classic &#8220;Children&#8217;s Story&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Fresh Prince (which we weren&#8217;t really), his DJ, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djjazzyjeff.com\/\" title=\"DJ Jazzy Jeff's website\">Jazzy Jeff<\/a>, will be releasing his first solo album, The Magnificent, in August of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;Where are they now?&#8221; file, Will Smith AKA Fresh Prince has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?current_row=1&#038;tf=tgam\/search\/tgam\/SearchFullStory.html&#038;cf=tgam\/search\/tgam\/SearchFullStory.cfg&#038;configFileLoc=tgam\/config&#038;encoded_keywords=slick+rick&#038;option=&#038;start_row=1&#038;start_row_offset1=&#038;num_rows=1&#038;search_results_start=1&#038;query=slick+rick\">come to the defence<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/music.hsx.com\/servlet\/DetailEnt?symbol=SLICK\" title=\"Slick Rick on the Hollywood Stock Exchange\">Slick Rick<\/a> AKA The Ruler who is in danger of being deported from the United States because of his second-degree murder conviction 11 years ago. U.S. law requires&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/will_smith_defends_slick_rick.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Big Willy defends Slick Rick&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}