{"id":6524,"date":"2023-07-18T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T00:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2023-07-18T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T00:07:35","slug":"new-zealand-hip-hop-legend-ermehn-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6524","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand hip hop legend Ermehn dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand hip hop legend Ermehn has died.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Joseph Loto Sakaria was an Auckland-based rapper who performed and recorded under the stage name of Ermehn.<\/p>\n<p>Ermehn was a former member of Otara Millionaires Club and Radio Backstab, and was often referred to as the Godfather of South Auckland hip hop.<\/p>\n<p>During his solo career he could be seen on stage wielding a machete and wearing a lava lava, and he sourced inspiration in his second album &#8216;The Path of Blood&#8217; through first-hand experience with gang-life.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/nat-music\/audio\/2534814\/ermehn-trained-to-kill\">spoke to RNZ<\/a>\u00a0about going clean and living a different kind of life.<\/p>\n<p>Many Kiwis took to social media to share memories of Ermehn and express shock over his death.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand hip hop legend Ermehn has died. Herman Joseph Loto Sakaria was an Auckland-based rapper who performed and recorded under the stage name of Ermehn. Ermehn was a former member of Otara Millionaires Club and Radio Backstab, and was often referred to as the Godfather of South Auckland hip hop. During his solo career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}