{"id":2054,"date":"2016-02-25T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/25\/drake-skips-brit-awards-after-party-to-support-the-rap-artists-who-werent-invited\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:13:11","slug":"drake-skips-brit-awards-after-party-to-support-the-rap-artists-who-werent-invited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/25\/drake-skips-brit-awards-after-party-to-support-the-rap-artists-who-werent-invited\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake skips Brit Awards after-party to support the rap artists who weren't invited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 Drake may have made a surprise appearance<\/a> during Rihanna’s Brit Awards performance Wednesday night, but he didn’t stick around for the after-party.<\/p>\n

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See also: Adele wins pretty much everything at the Brit Awards<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Instead of heading off to groove with the likes of Justin Bieber or Adele after the show was over, the Canadian artist joined UK rapper Skepta on-stage at a Section Boyz gig in London.<\/p>\n

The news comes in the aftermath of the #BritsSoWhite<\/a> hashtag surfacing on Twitter in recent days, and many speaking out about a lack of diversity among the nominees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Brit Awards spokesperson sent a statement<\/a> to Mashable<\/em> saying they take the issue of diversity very seriously. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Uk<\/a>, Diversity<\/a>, Rihanna<\/a>, Drake<\/a>, and Entertainment<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON \u2014 Drake may have made a surprise appearance during Rihanna’s Brit Awards performance Wednesday night, but he didn’t stick around for the after-party. See also: Adele wins pretty much everything at the Brit Awards Instead of heading off to … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[877,1440,739,1229,760],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-diversity","tag-drake","tag-entertainment","tag-rihanna","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}