{"id":8402,"date":"2011-07-14T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:02:33","slug":"kanye-west-says-media-lies-to-you-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8402","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Says Media &#8216;Lies To You Every Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kanye West<\/strong> is nothing if not consistent. As the sole hip-hop headliner at this year&#8217;s Essence Music Festival Saturday (July 2) night, the Chicago MC did not disappoint, offering up a visual feast complete with pyrotechnics, nearly two dozen dancers and elaborate lighting.<\/p>\n<p>Broken up into three acts, the Louis Vuitton Don ran through more than 20 songs, ranging from tracks off his debut album to his most recent, &#8216;My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Never one to shy away from being candid, <strong>West<\/strong> made mention of his now infamous incident at the 2009 MTV Awards, which set his career into what many had written off as a downward spiral. &#8220;I had a little bit to drink that night,&#8221; he admitted amidst the audience&#8217;s cheers and laughter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong> also took fans down his own personal music memory lane playing some his favorite songs, which he credited as inspiring his musical genius. &#8220;I don&#8217;t do interviews anymore because the press be trying to kill me, I let the music speak for itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West is nothing if not consistent. As the sole hip-hop headliner at this year&#8217;s Essence Music Festival Saturday (July 2) night, the Chicago MC did not disappoint, offering up a visual feast complete with pyrotechnics, nearly two dozen dancers and elaborate lighting. Broken up into three acts, the Louis Vuitton Don ran through more [&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-8402","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\/8402","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=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}