{"id":191923,"date":"2018-11-30T21:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=191923"},"modified":"2018-11-30T21:17:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:17:26","slug":"posthumous-debut-album-from-slain-toronto-rapper-smoke-dawg-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/30\/posthumous-debut-album-from-slain-toronto-rapper-smoke-dawg-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Posthumous debut album from slain Toronto rapper Smoke Dawg released"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191924\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/31255964_232424040840517_6757048167331528704_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191924\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/31255964_232424040840517_6757048167331528704_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 21-year-old captured the attention of the local hip-hop community after joining Drake on his 2017 European tour. (<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.fmnl6-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/vp\/93a8ec1059c2fef5ee8d52f9594b761c\/5CA8B48B\/t51.2885-15\/sh0.08\/e35\/s640x640\/31255964_232424040840517_6757048167331528704_n.jpg\">File photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/smokedawg\/?hl=en\">@878smokey\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toronto rapper Smoke Dawg&#8217;s posthumous album arrived on Friday, exactly five months after he was killed in a brazen shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStruggle Before Glory\u201d marks the debut full-length record from the performer, born Jahvante Smart, who was considered one of Toronto&#8217;s rising young rappers.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old captured the attention of the local hip-hop community after joining Drake on his 2017 European tour.<\/p>\n<p>His 13-track album features numerous guest appearances, including British artists Fredo and Giggs.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto rappers Safe and Puffy L&#8217;z \u2014 both part of the Halal Gang artist collective where Smoke Dawg forged his early career \u2014 also feature on tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Smart was one of two men killed on June 30 in Toronto&#8217;s entertainment district. The other was Ernest Modekwe, brand manager for hip-hop collective Prime Boys.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police have issued a warrant for the arrest of 22-year-old Abdulkadir Handule in the fatal shooting and a 16-year-old boy who can&#8217;t be named because he is a minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto rapper Smoke Dawg&#8217;s posthumous album arrived on Friday, exactly five months after he was killed in a brazen shooting. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-david-friend","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}