{"id":483410,"date":"2019-03-14T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=808259"},"modified":"2019-03-14T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:51:18","slug":"see-elle-varner-wale-play-with-python-in-pour-me-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-elle-varner-wale-play-with-python-in-pour-me-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Elle Varner, Wale Play With Python in \u2018Pour Me\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pourme.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/elle-varner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elle-varner\" data-tag=\"elle-varner\">Elle Varner<\/a> sings to a python in the video for her new song, \u201cPour Me,\u201d which features a guest appearance by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wale\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wale\" data-tag=\"wale\">Wale<\/a>. She straddles a table, snuggling up to the yellow reptile in many scenes of the video, and the snake even slithers over to Wale for one of his raps. \u201cThinking \u2019bout you all night for sure, pour me one more,\u201d she sings without missing a beat. The song will appear on her upcoming album, whose title is yet to be announced, due out this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The record has been a long time in the making. Varner released her last record, her debut <em>Perfectly Imperfect<\/em>, in 2012. At the time, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> selected her as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/band-to-watch-elle-varner-42574\/\">Artist to Watch<\/a>. Although she spent the years since working on an LP she was calling <em>Four Letter Word<\/em>, her label, RCA, dropped her before it came out. Nevertheless, in the time since her debut, she was nominated for a Grammy for her song \u201cRefill\u201d and appeared on Chance the Rapper\u2019s Grammy-winning <em>Coloring Book<\/em>. She\u2019s now signed to 4\/4 Sound\/Entertainment One. She previously released the song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zqwd6xnWLf0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLoving U Blind,\u201d<\/a> which will also appear on the upcoming record.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond working on the album, Varner recently performed as part of Black Girls Rock! Fest, which was held at the Kennedy Center, and she will sing at the 2019 Essence Festival this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/elle-varner-wale-pour-me-video-808259\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elle Varner sings to a python in the video for her new song, \u201cPour Me,\u201d which features a guest appearance by Wale. She straddles a table, snuggling up to the yellow reptile in many scenes of the video, and the snake even slithers over to Wale for one of his raps. \u201cThinking \u2019bout you all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 10:50:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}