{"id":3104,"date":"2013-06-06T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2013-06-09T22:59:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:59:39","slug":"did-hip-hop-turn-me-into-an-international-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/?p=3104","title":{"rendered":"Did Hip Hop turn me into an international icon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now reading the title of this article one may think that it&#8217;s an actual rap celebrity writing&#8230;.Wrong! I&#8217;m not a rap celebrity, in fact I&#8217;m just black. Well, being politically correct, I&#8217;m Jamaican. Unlike many of my counterparts, I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to live in many countries (live, not visit) and experience all types of cultures.<\/p>\n<p>It dawned on me last summer that I&#8217;ve become a world class celebrity, all thanks to hip hop. It was my first time in Eastern Europe&#8217;s Budapest Hungary and I was coursed into a relaxed day at the\u00a0\u00a0Sz\u00e9chenyi Baths. Why not right? 40+ spas at different temperatures and half naked beautiful women walking around, it was almost the of a P.Diddy&#8217;s video.<\/p>\n<p>As I got to the entrance of the Spa, I noticed that the cashier was trying her best to speak English with the largest smile on her face. She turned extremely red as I thanked her for taking my money! \u00a0As I got to my locker, I was then greeted by security who asked me if I had everything that I needed and would I like to get a &#8220;bigger&#8221; locker for the same price. If your asking, then why not? I only live once right? haha..<\/p>\n<p>After getting first class treatment from the staff, I entered the grand courtyard where there were multiple outdoor spa&#8217;s. As I walked to the first spa, I couldn&#8217;t help but to notice the stares.. I mean, everyone was starring so hard, I felt as if I was on stage rocking a hip hop crowd. My entrance to the first spa was like crowd surfing, honestly the attention was over barring&#8230; Entering the spa I was greeted with smiles, high fives and even a random girl wanted to take a photo with me?&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journeymart.com\/article\/ArticleImages\/IMG_94_308.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, many of you would say that this is simply racist, or &#8220;uncultured&#8221; people (majority of the patrons were non Hungarians) in reality, \u00a0I felt that I was able to bring a culture to them that they only witnessed on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Have you had the same experience while traveling black?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Now reading the title of this article one may think that it&#8217;s an actual rap celebrity writing&#8230;.Wrong! I&#8217;m not a rap celebrity, in fact I&#8217;m just black. Well, being politically correct, I&#8217;m Jamaican. Unlike many of my counterparts, I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to live in many countries (live, not visit) and experience all types [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[1043,1040,1041,161,1042],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-travel-syle","tag-andre","tag-eastern-europe","tag-hip-hop-celebrity","tag-hungary","tag-travel-with-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}