{"id":44289,"date":"2018-08-07T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=44289"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T18:07:59","slug":"rappers-tyga-fat-joe-cause-cancelation-of-israeli-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/rappers-tyga-fat-joe-cause-cancelation-of-israeli-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Rappers Tyga, Fat Joe cause cancelation of Israeli music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>JNS.org<\/em>) &#8212; American celebrity rappers Fat Joe and Tyga, who were slated to headline the Shaka music festival in Rishon Letzion on Thursday, August 9, canceled suddenly on Sunday, August 5, citing the \u201csecurity situation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The pair were set to be joined by a lineup of Israeli hip-hop artists.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden loss of the two top performers led to the cancellation of the entire festival. Ticket-holders were informed that they would be able to secure refunds.<\/p>\n<p>Shocked fans expressed their disappointment on social media, with many asking \u201cwhat security situation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several years, many musicians and other artists have come under pressure from the BDS movement to not perform in the Jewish state. It was unclear if the BDS movement played a role in this case.<\/p>\n<p>The performance was to be the first in Israel for Tyga and Fat Joe, both Grammy-nominated performers in the rap category.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s Shaka Festival featured rapper Sean Paul, who performed for 15,000 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Many major performers have played in Israel this summer, including Alanis Morissette, Enrique Iglesias, Ozzy Osbourne, Ringo Starr, Maluma, Flo Rida and Jason Derulo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Rappers%20Tyga%2C%20Fat%20Joe%20cause%20cancelation%20of%20Israeli%20music%20festival\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7137],"tags":[9519,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44293,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44289\/revisions\/44293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}