{"id":904,"date":"2006-03-31T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/you_can_feel_it_when_you_touch_a_playas_hand.html"},"modified":"2006-03-31T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T17:34:04","slug":"you_can_feel_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/you_can_feel_it.html","title":{"rendered":"You Can Feel It When You Touch A Playa’s Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hizzoner announced that VH1 will host its annual Hip Hop Honors in New York, providing a convenient opportunity to front with his homeboys Ice-T and Russell Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“That’s c-o-o-l,” Mayor Bloomberg told reporters at City Hall yesterday after he was given the title by rapper\/actor Ice-T.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg, surrounded by Ice-T and hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, announced New York City will once again host VH1’s Hip Hop Honors. He tried his best to fit in as just another homeboy from the ‘hood — albeit one with a few billion dollars.<\/p>\n

“Welcome to City Hall, or my crib, as I like to call it,” Bloomberg said to laughter. “Not everybody here understands our language.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Groan.<\/p>\n

“Where else could you have Hip-Hop Week but in New York City,” Bloomberg said, rattling off a list of local notables, ranging from Simmons, of Hollis, Queens, to “me, Mike B,” from Manhattan.<\/p>\n

He got high praise from Simmons, who endorsed his 2005 mayoral reelection, and Ice-T, a star of “Law and Order: SVU,” who said he was surprised by the invite to City Hall.<\/p>\n

“My people said Bloomberg’s cool,” Ice-T said as Bloomberg smiled and blushed.<\/p>\n

“On the street, I think that’s the highest accolade he could ever achieve. When we showed up and I met him, I felt it too. You can feel it when you touch a playa’s hand.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No! Please make it stop!<\/p>\n

Backstory: It Could Be Just Me, But The Mayor Is Probably The Last Person I’d Want To Rap About<\/a>; Mayor Mike: Rockin’ the Mic Left and Right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hizzoner announced that VH1 will host its annual Hip Hop Honors in New York, providing a convenient opportunity to front with his homeboys Ice-T and Russell Simmons: “That’s c-o-o-l,” Mayor Bloomberg told reporters at City Hall yesterday after he was given the title by rapper\/actor Ice-T. Bloomberg, surrounded by Ice-T and hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap_your_pants_say_yeah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}