{"id":65654,"date":"2026-02-06T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/rapper-lil-jon-confirms-son-is-dead-after-police-find-body-in-pond-near-atlanta\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:00:06","slug":"rapper-lil-jon-confirms-son-is-dead-after-police-find-body-in-pond-near-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/rapper-lil-jon-confirms-son-is-dead-after-police-find-body-in-pond-near-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Lil Jon confirms son is dead after police find body in pond near Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Smith, 27, known professionally as DJ Young Slade, was music producer, artist, engineer and NYU graduate<\/p>\n<p>American rapper Lil Jon said on Friday that his son, Nathan Smith, has died, the record producer confirmed in a joint statement with Smith\u2019s mother after police found a body in a pond north of Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely heartbroken for the tragic loss of our son, Nathan Smith. His mother [Nicole Smith] and I are devastated,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/06\/rapper-lil-jon-confirms-son-dead\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Smith, 27, known professionally as DJ Young Slade, was music producer, artist, engineer and NYU graduate American rapper Lil Jon said on Friday that his son, Nathan Smith, has died, the record producer confirmed in a joint statement with Smith\u2019s mother after police found a body in a pond north of Atlanta, Georgia. \u201cI &#8230; <a title=\"Rapper Lil Jon confirms son is dead after police find body in pond near Atlanta\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/rapper-lil-jon-confirms-son-is-dead-after-police-find-body-in-pond-near-atlanta\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rapper Lil Jon confirms son is dead after police find body in pond near Atlanta\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}