{"id":10558,"date":"2025-04-18T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10558"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:01:30","slug":"snappa-chef-chooses-life-over-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=10558","title":{"rendered":"Snappa Chef Chooses Life Over Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rigors of a nine-to-five job with inadequate compensation is the subject of <strong><em>\u2018Money Over Life\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a song by Jamaican singjay Snappa Chef. Released on April 3, it is produced by Betty Luv Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Snappa Chef, who lives in New York, believes the traditional workforce exploits persons of color, who are unable to save as much money as their white counterparts, and enjoy pleasures like exotic vacations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I realize how it\u2019s a game they are playing with us, I had to\u00a0take a deep look into it. Some people work all their lives and never see the great results,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>His message is, despite setting up the 401K and beating the nine-to-five pavement daily, make sure there is enough quality time for family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should take time out just to vibe with their\u00a0kids. Don\u2019t work\u00a0yourself away, leave time for yourself,\u201d Snappa Chef noted. <strong><em>\u2018Money Over Life\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is his latest collaboration with Betty Luv Entertainment, a New York-based company operated by fellow Jamaican Bethynia Palmer. In 2022, they worked on the humorous <strong><em>\u2018Dumpling Plane\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a reminiscence about Air Jamaica, Jamaica\u2019s national airline which went out of business in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Town native is also promoter of Snapps Splash, his birthday event which is scheduled for July 19 at Andrea\u2019s Outdoor in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rigors of a nine-to-five job with inadequate compensation is the subject of \u2018Money Over Life\u2019, a song by Jamaican singjay Snappa Chef. Released on April 3, it is produced by Betty Luv Entertainment. Snappa Chef, who lives in New York, believes the traditional workforce exploits persons of color, who are unable to save as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10559,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions\/10559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}