{"id":2444856,"date":"2019-06-01T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=843259"},"modified":"2019-06-01T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T17:16:41","slug":"meek-mill-receives-apology-from-las-vegas-hotel-that-barred-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/meek-mill-receives-apology-from-las-vegas-hotel-that-barred-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Mill Receives Apology From Las Vegas Hotel That Barred Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/10129047j.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Cosmopolitan issued an apology to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/meek-mill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_meek-mill\" data-tag=\"meek-mill\">Meek Mill<\/a> Friday, nearly a week after the Las Vegas hotel both barred the rapper from entering and threatened to have him arrested for trespassing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe apologize to Meek Mill for how we handled the situation on Saturday, May 25, as we did not act in a respectful manner and were wrong,\u201d the hotel said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeek Mill has not had any prior incidents on our property. The Cosmopolitan has zero tolerance for discrimination and we pride ourselves on providing an inclusive environment. We look forward to welcoming Meek Mill back to the resort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets and videos on May 25th, Meek Mill documented his encounter with the security team at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. 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<p>\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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeekMill\/status\/1132416792775733248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the videos, 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. He also tweeted that some Las Vegas hotels are \u201cdoing this to black entertainers because they don\u2019t want too many blacks on they property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapper\u2019s lawyer Joe Tacopina later threatened legal action against the hotel \u2013 \u201cSuch course of conduct constitutes discrimination,\u201d he wrote in a demand letter \u2013 and warned, \u201cWe urge you to promptly issue an apology to [Meek Mill] and grant him immediate access.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A rep for Meek Mill told CNN Friday, \u201cWe appreciate the Cosmopolitan\u2019s apology and will no longer pursue legal recourse at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/meek-mill-cosmopolitan-apology-843259\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cosmopolitan issued an apology to Meek Mill Friday, nearly a week after the Las Vegas hotel both barred the rapper from entering and threatened to have him arrested for trespassing. \u201cWe apologize to Meek Mill for how we handled the situation on Saturday, May 25, as we did not act in a respectful manner [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444856","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 04:20:45","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}