{"id":216428,"date":"2015-12-11T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=216428"},"modified":"2015-12-11T06:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:06:23","slug":"petey-pablo-bubba-sparxxx-to-put-on-two-night-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/petey-pablo-bubba-sparxxx-to-put-on-two-night-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Petey Pablo, Bubba Sparxxx to put on two-night show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_216438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216438\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Petey-Pablo-pix-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Petey-Pablo-pix-copy-300x200.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Steven Brownstein, Bubba Sparxxx, Nola Hix, and Petey Pablo pose for a photo after a press conference yesterday at Hyatt Regency Saipan. The artists will be performing live at Godfather&#8217;s Bar tonight and tomorrow. (Thomas A. Manglona II)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGrammy nominated rapper Moses Mortimer Barret III, widely known by his stage name Petey Pablo, along with American hip-hop recording artist Bubba Sparxxx, will take the stage at Godfather\u2019s Bar tonight and tomorrow made possible by Steven Brownstein Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The two prominent artists have worked together for 15 years and will be performing some of their greatest hits for a Saipan audience for the very first time this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love it here,\u201d Petey Pablo told media in a press conference yesterday. \u201cThe island is so peaceful\u2026The cliffs that they have over here [that we visited while touring] is something special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what his favorite song was, Bubba Sparxxx said: \u201cMy favorite song is \u201cNowhere\u201d because it is a real accurate depiction of where I cam from and how I grew up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bubba Spraxxx\u2019s \u201cNowhere\u201d debuted on the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 60,000 copies in its first week in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>His partner, Petey Pablo, has had equal success not only as a musician, but actor, as well. He appeared in the film Drumline and more recently played a character in FOX\u2019s hit show, Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors of the two shooting a music video on island surfaced as their performance date neared. The artists told Saipan Tribune that islanders should \u201ckeep their eyes open and play close attention\u201d to their next project. \u201cIt\u2019s a potential yes,\u201d they said in response to whether or not the video will be shot.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s show is already sold-out. However, tickets for limited seating are available for $25 to see Bubba Sparxx and Petey Pabloe Saturday night.  The artists will be leaving the island Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy nominated rapper Moses Mortimer Barret III, widely known by his stage name Petey Pablo,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":216438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8643,8644,8645,8646],"class_list":["post-216428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bubba-sparxxx","tag-bubba-spraxxx","tag-godfather-bar","tag-petey-pablo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}