{"id":48184,"date":"2024-09-11T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=48184"},"modified":"2024-09-11T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:38:04","slug":"50-cent-reveals-tems-me-u-as-his-favorite-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/11\/50-cent-reveals-tems-me-u-as-his-favorite-song\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent Reveals Tems&#8217; &#8216;Me &#038; U&#8217; as His Favorite Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American rapper Curtis James Jackson III, better known as 50 Cent, has shared his current favorite song. In a viral clip from a recent interview, the hip-hop icon revealed that &#8220;Me &amp; U&#8221; by Grammy-winning Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, known professionally as Tems, is his top pick right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy current song on repeat is \u2018Me &amp; U\u2019 by Tems,\u201d 50 Cent stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me &amp; U&#8221; is the lead single from Tems&#8217; critically acclaimed debut studio album, Born in the Wild.<\/p>\n<p>The track stirred controversy when it won the Bobby Jones Best Gospel\/Inspirational Award at the 2024 BET Awards. Critics argued that a secular artist&#8217;s song should not have won in a category that traditionally honors gospel legends like Kirk Franklin, Shirley Caesar, CeCe Winans, and Maverick\u00a0City\u00a0Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai American rapper Curtis James Jackson III, better known as 50 Cent, has shared his current favorite song. In a viral clip from a recent interview, the hip-hop icon revealed that &#8220;Me &amp; U&#8221; by Grammy-winning Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, known professionally as Tems, is his top pick right now. \u201cMy current song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":48185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48186,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48184\/revisions\/48186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}