{"id":792816,"date":"2019-02-07T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=791170"},"modified":"2019-02-07T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:05:52","slug":"21-savage-was-scheduled-to-perform-at-grammys-prior-to-ice-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/21-savage-was-scheduled-to-perform-at-grammys-prior-to-ice-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Savage Was Scheduled to Perform at Grammys Prior to ICE Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_9038638aw.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ahead of a surprise arrest by\u00a0U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday in Atlanta, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/21-savage\/\" id=\"auto-tag_21-savage\" data-tag=\"21-savage\">21 Savage<\/a> was scheduled to perform in one of the highest profile settings of his career: the Grammys. A source close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/post-malone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_post-malone\" data-tag=\"post-malone\">Post Malone<\/a>\u2019s camp confirmed that the rapper was set to appear with Post during his performance at the Sunday night ceremony. The pair planned to perform their hit (and Grammy-nominated) single \u201cRockstar,\u201d as part of a larger performance that also included Malone\u2019s separate performance with Red Hot Chili Peppers. (The RHCP collaboration will still go on as scheduled.)<\/p>\n<p>The planned appearance illustrates how sudden the rapper\u2019s (real name\u00a0She\u2019yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph) arrest and detention by ICE were.<\/p>\n<p>According to statements by ICE that were later partially confirmed and debunked by Abraham-Joseph\u2019s legal team, the Atlanta rapper was arrested for overstaying a visa. He arrived in the United States over a decade ago from the U.K., where he is from, and never returned. According to statements from Charles H. Kuck, his current immigration lawyer, he had applied for a U Visa, which gives the victims of crimes a path to American residency, in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>21 Savage has not currently been granted bond, which would be necessary for him to perform on Sunday. A rep for the Grammys declined to comment on the appearance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/21-savage-scheduled-to-perform-at-grammys-791170\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of a surprise arrest by\u00a0U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday in Atlanta, 21 Savage was scheduled to perform in one of the highest profile settings of his career: the Grammys. A source close to Post Malone\u2019s camp confirmed that the rapper was set to appear with Post during his performance at the Sunday [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 19:23:43","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}