{"id":8033,"date":"2025-05-21T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=8033"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:04:24","slug":"sza-convinces-child-to-ditch-whippets-for-selfie-as-she-criticises-drug-targeting-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=8033","title":{"rendered":"SZA convinces child to ditch whippets for selfie as she criticises drug targeting on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>SZA has shared a personal moment of concern and action after persuading a young person to give up a nitrous oxide canister in exchange for a selfie.<\/p>\n<p>The singer took to Instagram to recount the drive-through encounter, where she noticed the child using \u201cwhippet\u201d drugs and offered a picture and video instead. Sharing a photo of herself holding the colourful canister, SZA wrote, \u201cLiterally talked a CHILD into throwing away his whippet drugs in exchange for a picture\/video at the in n out drive through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSad but if I can stop this shit for even a second imma try,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Nitrous oxide, often called \u201claughing gas,\u201d is inhaled recreationally and can cause brief euphoria but poses serious health risks, including lung damage and oxygen deprivation.<\/p>\n<p>While SZA&#8217;s post highlighted the troubling drug use among youth, her week also brought career highs. Her hit song Luther, in collaboration with Kendrick Lamar, has now spent 13 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single, which samples Luther Vandross, is Kendrick\u2019s sixth and SZA\u2019s third chart-topper.<\/p>\n<p>The duo recently performed Luther and other collaborations at the Super Bowl halftime show and on their Grand National tour. Their Seattle show at Lumen Field sold over 60,000 tickets and grossed $14.8 million, setting a new hip-hop concert record.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SZA has shared a personal moment of concern and action after persuading a young person to give up a nitrous oxide canister in exchange for a selfie. The singer took to Instagram to recount the drive-through encounter, where she noticed the child using \u201cwhippet\u201d drugs and offered a picture and video instead. Sharing a photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}