{"id":4865,"date":"2016-07-14T20:45:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/14\/chance-the-rapper-closes-espys-with-stirring-tribute-to-muhammad-ali\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T12:45:41","slug":"chance-the-rapper-closes-espys-with-stirring-tribute-to-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/07\/14\/chance-the-rapper-closes-espys-with-stirring-tribute-to-muhammad-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper closes ESPYs with stirring tribute to Muhammad Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chance the Rapper concluded an emotional ESPYS<\/a> award show Wednesday night with a musical tribute to late boxing icon Muhammad Ali<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The rapper performed an original track in Ali’s honor, interspliced with recorded quotes \u2014 including his famously thought-provoking monologue<\/a> about his retirement plans.<\/p>\n

He was joined onstage by fellow musician and bandmate Donnie Trumpet, as well as Jamila Woods,\u00a0Teddy Jackson and Peter CottonTale for the performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 16 of the greatest Muhammad Ali quotes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Twitter, Chance also posted a pre-show video of a therapeutic dance session alongside Steph Curry. “Besides praying this is the best way to prep for a big moment,” he wrote. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chance the Rapper concluded an emotional ESPYS award show Wednesday night with a musical tribute to late boxing icon Muhammad Ali. The rapper performed an original track in Ali’s honor, interspliced with recorded quotes \u2014 including his famously thought-provoking monologue … 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":[3771,3770,3192,903,735],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-chance-the-rapper","tag-espy-awards","tag-muhammad-ali","tag-viral-videos","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","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=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}