{"id":486310,"date":"2019-05-26T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=840508"},"modified":"2019-05-26T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T13:04:09","slug":"meek-mill-blasts-racist-as-hell-las-vegas-hotel-for-banning-him-without-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/meek-mill-blasts-racist-as-hell-las-vegas-hotel-for-banning-him-without-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill Blasts \u2018Racist as Hell\u2019 Las Vegas Hotel for Banning Him \u2018Without Incident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meek Mill<\/a> accused a Las Vegas<\/a> hotel of being \u201cracist as hell\u201d for barring the rapper from the property and threatening to have him arrested for trespassing.<\/p>\n

In a series of tweets and videos, Meek Mill documented his encounter with the security team at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. According to TMZ<\/a>, the rapper visited the hotel Saturday afternoon in order to attend a DJ Mustard day concert there, but security staff would not allow him the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you come from our culture you should never step foot in the cosmopolitan hotel they just really racist as hell \u2026. something really has to be done in Las Vegas what they doing to black people,\u201d Meek Mill tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey telling black rappers they are banned from properties they own without incident \u2026 they just told me I was trespassing and I will be arrested I stepped in that hotel once at a [Jay-Z] party without incident!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arrested for what????? #Cosmopolitanvegss<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/5OvmGBrXKv<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Meek Mill (@MeekMill) May 26, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the video, the security guard says that the decision to bar the rapper is \u201cway bigger than me,\u201d and then threatens to have him arrested for trespassing if he entered hotel property. \u201cI\u2019m gonna be arrested for what? Being a rapper?\u201d Meek Mill asked.<\/p>\n

Meek Mill also tweeted, \u201cThe cosmopolitan hotel \u2026. and it\u2019s a few other hotels that be doing this to black entertainers because they don\u2019t want too many blacks on they property! Vegas notorious for this too its not just me!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The cosmopolitan hotel \u2026. and it\u2019s a few other hotels that be doing this to black entertainers because they don\u2019t want too many blacks on they property! Vegas notorious for this too its not just me!!!! pic.twitter.com\/HPySp2nh8h<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Meek Mill (@MeekMill) May 25, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Cosmopolitan said in a statement to 3 News Las Vegas<\/a>, \u201cAs a matter of company policy, we do not comment on legal matters. Our guests\u2019 safety and security always remains our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meek Mill\u2019s lawyer Joe Tacopina later wrote in a demand letter given to TMZ, \u201cWe have learned that the Cosmopolitan maintains a list of African American recording artists who should be denied access for no other reason than than their culture and skin color. Such course of conduct constitutes discrimination per se, in violation of state and federal law, and exposes you to significant monetary damages.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter also warned the Cosmopolitan, \u201cWe urge you to promptly issue an apology to Mr. Williams and grant him immediate access. In the event you fail to heed this one and only warning, we intend to pursue all legal recourse against you.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meek Mill accused a Las Vegas hotel of being \u201cracist as hell\u201d for barring the rapper from the property and threatening to have him arrested for trespassing. In a series of tweets and videos, Meek Mill documented his encounter with the security team at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. According to TMZ, the rapper visited […]<\/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-486310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 00:24:19","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\/486310","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=486310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}