{"id":4058,"date":"2020-02-23T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2020-02-23T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T13:40:11","slug":"watch-rapper-t-i-harasses-man-on-the-street-for-wearing-gucci-following-blackface-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4058","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Rapper T.I. Harasses Man on the Street for Wearing Gucci Following &#039;Blackface&#039; Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rapper T.I. apparently was not happy to see a man on the street wearing Gucci following controversy over the fashion brand using &#8220;blackface&#8221; in it&#8217;s apparel.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;That shit ain\u2019t shit until we put it on! We make that shit fly! Look at me, nigga. I&#8217;m fly as a motherfucker and I ain&#8217;t got that shit on. I look better than you, as a matter of fact,&#8221; T.I. told the man.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Live Your Life&#8221; rapper was upset because of Gucci marketing a bizarre turtleneck that many critics said mimicked blackface.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The fashion company later apologized for the shirt and said that the product will not be sold anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gucci deeply apologizes for the offense caused by the wool balaclava jumper,&#8221; the company said in statement. &#8220;We consider diversity to be a fundamental value to be fully upheld, respected, and at the forefront of every decision we make.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy-winning rapper certainly doesn&#8217;t hold back his views on much. Last year, he ripped into Kanye West for his support of Donald Trump and visit to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the most repulsive, disgraceful,\u00a0Embarrassing act of desperation &amp; auctioning off of one\u2019s soul to gain power I\u2019ve ever seen,&#8221; he said in a social media message to West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You ass kissing and boot licking on a whole new level &amp;I refuse to associate myself with something so vile,weak,&amp; inconsiderate to the effect this has on the greater good of ALL OUR PEOPLE!!!!&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper T.I. apparently was not happy to see a man on the street wearing Gucci following controversy over the fashion brand using &#8220;blackface&#8221; in it&#8217;s apparel. &#8220;That shit ain\u2019t shit until we put it on! We make that shit fly! Look at me, nigga. I&#8217;m fly as a motherfucker and I ain&#8217;t got that shit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}