{"id":1196,"date":"2013-04-23T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2013-04-23T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:38:49","slug":"jay-z-covers-time-magazines-100-most-influential-people-in-the-world-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"JAY-Z COVERS TIME MAGAZINE’S “100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ISSUE” !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Among his peers; Beyonce, Michelle Obama, & Justin Timberlake, (just to name a few) Jay-Z also landed in the “icon” category and on the COVER for Time’s Magazine’s – April 29th issue – of the “100 Most Influential People In The World”! Jay-Z is now in historic company with Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill. <\/p>\n

And it didn’t stop there! Time Magazine got non other than NYC’s own Mayor: Michael Bloomberg to cover the Hov Story!<\/p>\n

READ WHAT BLOOMBERG HAD TO SAY ABOUT HOV!<\/p>\n

Here is a little piece of the story Bloomberg wrote on Jay-Z and his life:<\/p>\n

\n“Jay Z embodies so much of what makes New York New York,” Bloomberg writes. “A kid from a tough neighborhood who grows up in public housing, overcomes lots of bad influences on the street, never lets go of his dream, makes it to the top \u2014 and then keeps going, pursuing new outlets for his creativity and ambition.”<\/p>\n

The billionaire mayor further applauded Jay as a man who “never forgot his roots,” sighting his “Empire State of Mind” single as a “love song” to the city of New York.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among his peers; Beyonce, Michelle Obama, & Justin Timberlake, (just to name a few) Jay-Z also landed in the “icon” category and on the COVER for Time’s Magazine’s – April 29th issue – of the “100 Most Influential People In The World”! Jay-Z is now in historic company with Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1],"tags":[272,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takethisserious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}