{"id":3685,"date":"2016-05-15T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T01:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/15\/obama-and-macklemore-collab-on-a-dope-track-about-drug-addiction\/"},"modified":"2016-05-15T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T01:47:22","slug":"obama-and-macklemore-collab-on-a-dope-track-about-drug-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/15\/obama-and-macklemore-collab-on-a-dope-track-about-drug-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Macklemore collab on a dope track — about drug addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s 2007, and the iPhone has just debuted when someone from the future tells you that in just a few years a black U.S. president will sit next to a successful white rapper in the White House to talk about social issues<\/p>\n

Back then, you might have thought that person was describing a movie script rather than the real near future, but that scenario just played itself out on YouTube on Saturday, with President Barack Obama<\/a> teaming up with Grammy-winning rapper Macklemore<\/a> to talk about drug abuse<\/p>\n

Specifically, the two talk about the political class working to fund more programs for drug addiction treatment, with a special focus on opioids, which are often prescribed for pain, but sometimes lead to addiction. Macklemore also brings up his own history<\/a> of drug addiction and recovery as a way to relate directly to those who might be watching and currently suffering from drug addiction Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s 2007, and the iPhone has just debuted when someone from the future tells you that in just a few years a black U.S. president will sit next to a successful white rapper in the White House to talk about … 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":[2870,748,800,2367,1548],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-addiction","tag-drugs","tag-music","tag-opioids","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","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=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}