{"id":181368,"date":"2016-01-13T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=181368"},"modified":"2016-01-13T08:42:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:42:48","slug":"kendrick-lamar-met-with-his-biggest-fan-president-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=181368","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar met with his biggest fan, President Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-content\">President Barack Obama and Kendrick Lamar met at the White House to discuss the importance of mentorship.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper posted a video about the meeting on Vimeo, discussing the importance of young children having a mentor as they grow up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sat down with President Barack Obama and shared the same views,&#8221; Lamar says. &#8220;Topics concerning the inner cities, the problem the solutions and furthermore embracing the youth, both being aware that mentoring saves lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-also\">\n<p>Lamar also shared that he doesn&#8217;t know know where he would be if he hadn&#8217;t had a mentor &#8220;telling me what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong&#8221; when he was a kid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"popout\">Obama&#8217;s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett told <em>BuzzFeed<\/em> that Lamar had butterflies during the meeting.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He was a little nervous \u2014 bless his heart, he\u2019s really a very nice young man, and the president said, &#8216;Can you believe that we\u2019re both sitting in this Oval Office?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In December, Obama shared that his favorite song of the year was Lamar&#8217;s &#8220;How Much a Dollar Cost,&#8221; an emotional track off the critically acclaimed album <em>To Pimp a Butterfly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211;<\/i><\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content\">Source: Mashable\u00a0<\/section>\n<div id=\"outbrain-container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama and Kendrick Lamar met at the White House to discuss the importance of mentorship. The rapper posted a video about the meeting on Vimeo, discussing the importance of young children having a mentor as they grow up. &#8220;I sat down with President Barack Obama and shared the same views,&#8221; Lamar says. &#8220;Topics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}