{"id":14483,"date":"2016-01-21T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=14483"},"modified":"2016-01-21T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:00:05","slug":"mos-def-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=14483","title":{"rendered":"Mos Def Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image18.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14485\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image18.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"image\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image18.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image18.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) has announced he&#8217;s retiring. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An audio message of the announcement is currently posted on Kanye\u2019s Twitter feed. A driver may come from Yasiin\u2019s troubles with the country of South Africa, where he was recently arrested at Cape Town International Airport for trying to leave the country on an illegal \u201cWorld Passport\u201d document.<\/p>\n<p>Bey, who appeared in court last week, was ordered (along with his family) to leave the republic in 14 days. The rapper and his family had been living in South Africa \u201cwithout the necessary permits\u201d after overstaying on their visitor\u2019s permit. <\/p>\n<p>He closes the audio by rapping verses he previously performed for Kanye right before his daughter Nori was born. Yasiin also announced he will be retiring from the music industry and hollywood \u201ceffective immediately,\u201d after releasing his final album later this year.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/audio-clouds\/kanye-west<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) has announced he&#8217;s retiring.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[807,863],"class_list":["post-14483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-matrix","tag-mos-def"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-3LB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image18.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}