{"id":3262,"date":"2011-01-31T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2013-11-22T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:15:58","slug":"kool-herc-hospitalized-and-he-needs-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/headlines\/kool-herc-hospitalized-and-he-needs-your-help.htm","title":{"rendered":"Kool Herc Hospitalized and He Needs Your Help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Godfather of Hip Hop, Kool Herc, has been hospitalized and is need of financial support.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got no health insurance and is having trouble paying the bills.<\/p>\n<p>DJ Premier has been helping to get the word out and donations are being accepted via regular mail or via PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>Donation addresses are up, all donations can be send to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>KOOL HERC PRODUCTIONS<br \/>\n P.O. BOX 20472<br \/>\n HUNTINGTON STATION , NY 11746<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>or you can wire you donation internationally via paypal to this address:<\/p>\n<p><strong>cindycampbell1@aol.com<\/strong> (his sister)<\/p>\n<p>On his site, Premier posted, &#8220;His sister is taking care of everything. Press release is coming later today. He\u2019s now home ok, but he\u2019s in need of surgery which you can help him pay it. I\u2019ll post if there are any more updates. Hip Hop is so beautiful\u2026 Thanks to everyone for the love\u2026 Kool Herc is a trending topic!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some good information on Herc&#8217;s situation from the NY Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/31\/kool-herc-is-in-pain-and-using-it-to-put-focus-on-insurance\/\">http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/31\/kool-herc-is-in-pain-and-using-it-to-put-focus-on-insurance\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Godfather of Hip Hop, Kool Herc, has been hospitalized and is need of financial support. He&#8217;s got no health insurance and is having trouble paying the bills. DJ Premier has been helping to get the word out and donations are being accepted via regular mail or via PayPal. Donation addresses are up, all donations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}