{"id":270028,"date":"2026-02-06T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270028\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:25:08","slug":"kid-n-plays-christopher-reid-reveals-he-had-a-heart-transplant-im-urging-all-of-my-fans-to-get-checked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270028\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid \u2018n Play\u2019s Christopher Reid Reveals He Had a Heart Transplant: \u2018I\u2019m Urging All of My Fans\u2019 to \u2018Get Checked Out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christoper \u201cKid\u201d Reid, half of the hip-hop duo Kid \u2018n Play, has revealed he has a new heart. During an interview with Michael Strahan<\/a> on \u201cGood Morning America<\/a>\u201d on Thursday, Reid<\/a> said he underwent the life-saving procedure after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure last summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last year or so, maybe just starting feeling more fatigued than before, shortness of breath, sleeping more than normal,\u201d said Reid, who gained fame with Christopher \u201cPlay\u201d Martin in the late 1980s and early \u201990s for their upbeat music as well as their \u201cHouse Party<\/a>\u201d movies. \u201cI think sometimes you chalk it up to, \u2018I\u2019m getting older, the road is harsh, doing the old kick step.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

When the symptoms intensified, he went to the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, where doctors diagnosed him with congestive heart failure. He was initially treated with medication, but at his three-week follow-up his cardiologist,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christoper \u201cKid\u201d Reid, half of the hip-hop duo Kid \u2018n Play, has revealed he has a new heart.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-270028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}