{"id":20,"date":"2012-03-12T02:37:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T02:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/?p=20"},"modified":"2015-04-20T01:50:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T01:50:12","slug":"snoop-dogg-4-wheel-city-rap-for-kids-to-stay-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/snoop-dogg-4-wheel-city-rap-for-kids-to-stay-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg, 4 Wheel City Rap for Kids to Stay in School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b class=\"mycat2\">May 12, 2010<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Published On\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theboombox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TheBoomBox.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg is using his influence to encourage youth to stay in school. Snoop teamed up with rap duo and disability activists 4 Wheel City for the \u2018Welcome to Reality G-Mix\u2018 recently. \u201cThis is not just a record it\u2019s a movement,\u201d Snoop said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s a feeling! I\u2019m down with the movement, we are about doing something righteous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group will also kick off the Welcome to Reality tour which uses music as a medium to enlighten youth on the dangerous consequences of forgoing education for the pull of street life. 4 Wheel City members, Namel \u201cTapwaterz\u201d Norris, and, Ricardo \u201cRicfire\u201d Velasque, who motivationally rap from their wheelchairs, will tour high schools and hospitals around the country to both entertain and educate their audience. \u201cWe are excited to team up with Snoop Dogg,\u201d said Tapwaterz. \u201cHe is the perfect artist for this project. Kids love Snoop and he has the street credibility they will listen to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the song, which will be available for download via <a href=\"http:\/\/ReverbNation.com\" target=\"_blank\">ReverbNation.com<\/a>, will be used to produce an accompanying public service announcement\/music video. 4 Wheel City will debut \u2018Welcome to Realty G-Mix\u2019 during a live performance at the Canadian Association for Musical Therapy on May 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, 2010 Published On\u00a0TheBoomBox.com West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg is using his influence to encourage youth to stay in school. Snoop teamed up with rap duo and disability activists 4 Wheel City for the \u2018Welcome to Reality G-Mix\u2018 recently. \u201cThis is not just a record it\u2019s a movement,\u201d Snoop said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}