{"id":4041,"date":"2016-05-31T04:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/31\/snoop-dogg-says-he-is-boycotting-the-roots-miniseries-in-expletive-laced-video\/"},"modified":"2016-05-31T04:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T20:54:48","slug":"snoop-dogg-says-he-is-boycotting-the-roots-miniseries-in-expletive-laced-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/31\/snoop-dogg-says-he-is-boycotting-the-roots-miniseries-in-expletive-laced-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg says he is boycotting the &#039;Roots&#039; miniseries in expletive-laced video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f101214%2fsnoop.dogg\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/bYcdq4EwpRj32SE9CPCOreOrvAI=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F101214%2Fsnoop.dogg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Snoop+Dogg+says+he+is+boycotting+the+%27Roots%27+miniseries+in+expletive-laced+video&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F30%2Fsnoop-dogg-roots%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F30%2Fsnoop-dogg-roots%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A reboot of <i>Roots<\/i>, the 1977 miniseries based on Alex Haley&#8217;s novel, debuts Monday on\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">History<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">, <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">A&amp;E<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> and Lifetime. Snoop Dogg will definitely <i>not<\/i> be watching.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The rapper posted an\u00a0<\/span>expletive-laced<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0video message to Instagram on Monday criticizing films and television\u00a0shows that focused on slavery and calling on his fans to boycott the four-part miniseries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">&#8220;No disrespect, but I can&#8217;t watch no motherfucking more black movies where n\u2014\u2014s get dogged down&#8230;\u00a0<\/span>They going to just to keep beating that shit into our heads about how they did us, huh?<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0I mean, I don&#8217;t understand America, they just wanna keep showing the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but guess what? We&#8217;re taking the same abuse. Think about that part. When are y&#8217;all gonna make a motherfucking series about the success that black folks is having?&#8221;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/30\/snoop-dogg-roots\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/roots\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Roots<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/snoop-dogg\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Snoop Dogg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/television\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Television<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1464641547' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1464641547'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/VRwcx_wYB_Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reboot of Roots, the 1977 miniseries based on Alex Haley&#8217;s novel, debuts Monday on\u00a0History, A&amp;E and Lifetime. Snoop Dogg will definitely not be watching.\u00a0 The rapper posted an\u00a0expletive-laced\u00a0video message to Instagram on Monday criticizing films and television\u00a0shows that focused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/31\/snoop-dogg-says-he-is-boycotting-the-roots-miniseries-in-expletive-laced-video\/\">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":[739,800,3137,1716,883],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-roots","tag-snoop-dogg","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}