{"id":10320,"date":"2011-10-03T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10320"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T19:59:17","slug":"14-year-old-rapper-wows-x-factor-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10320","title":{"rendered":"14-Year-Old Rapper Wows &#8216;X-Factor&#8217; Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, <strong>Brian Bradley<\/strong>, a young aspiring rapper from Brooklyn released a video revealing his frustration with men catcalling and eyeballing his mother. Days after hitting the web his song, entitled\u00a0<em>Stop Looking at My Mom<\/em>, became a viral sensation, racking up over 200,000 views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>This week on The X-Factor, the 14-year-old <strong>Bradley<\/strong> hit the stage with hopes of wowing the celebrity judge panel with his original song and winning a chance to compete for the record deal of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>He started out the performance by giving <strong>Simon Cowell<\/strong> a lot of attitude and trying to pick a fight, but that was all part of the act leading up to his rap.<\/p>\n<p>After he performed the teen rapper not only received the coveted &#8220;yes&#8221; from all four judges, but even surprised the industry veterans of the panel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are arrogant, obnoxious, and argumentative but, you are one of the most talented young people I have ever heard,&#8221; <strong>Simon Cowell<\/strong> said following the performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>L.A. Reid<\/strong> found <strong>Bradley<\/strong> impressive too, telling the teen he is the &#8220;luckiest guy&#8221;. &#8220;Wow. Wow. I used to run this label called def jam, all the years I was there, i was looking for you and you never walked in,&#8217; said <strong>Reid<\/strong>. &#8220;I&#8217;m the luckiest guy in the world that you walked into my life today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, Brian Bradley, a young aspiring rapper from Brooklyn released a video revealing his frustration with men catcalling and eyeballing his mother. Days after hitting the web his song, entitled\u00a0Stop Looking at My Mom, became a viral sensation, racking up over 200,000 views on YouTube. This week on The X-Factor, the 14-year-old Bradley hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}