{"id":20622,"date":"2013-04-15T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20622"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:07:33","slug":"reebok-ends-rick-ross-contract-after-song-draws-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20622","title":{"rendered":"Reebok Ends Rick Ross\u2019 Contract After Song Draws Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A day after Reebok ended its relationship with <strong>Rick Ross<\/strong>, the rapper acknowledged that his lyrics on <strong>Rocko\u2019s<\/strong> song <em>\u201cU.O.E.N.O.\u201d<\/em> were \u201coffensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Friday, <strong>Ross <\/strong>said being a musician is \u201ca great responsibility\u201d and that his choice of words in the song \u201cdoes not reflect my true heart.\u201d In the song,<strong> Ross<\/strong> raps about giving a woman the drug MDMA, also known as Molly, and having his way with her. Women\u2019s groups and rape victims issued petitions in recent weeks in protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I am an artist, I am a father, a son, and a brother to some of the most cherished women in the world. So for me to suggest in any way that harm and violation be brought to a woman is one of my biggest mistakes and regrets,\u201d his statement said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Reebok said it had terminated its contract with <strong>Ross<\/strong> because the rapper wasn\u2019t living \u201cup to the values of our brand.\u201d <strong>Ross<\/strong> has appeared in a commercial for the Reebok Classic sneakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A day after Reebok ended its relationship with Rick Ross, the rapper acknowledged that his lyrics on Rocko\u2019s song \u201cU.O.E.N.O.\u201d were \u201coffensive.\u201d In a statement Friday, Ross said being a musician is \u201ca great responsibility\u201d and that his choice of words in the song \u201cdoes not reflect my true heart.\u201d In the [&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-20622","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\/20622","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=20622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}