{"id":324884,"date":"2025-12-01T22:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324884\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:40:08","slug":"rapper-toosii-says-he-will-play-football-at-syracuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324884\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Toosii says he will play football at Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZWPPCWL7QVFATOMCIVWB6EA6QA\">Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 Syracuse-born rapper Nau\u2019Jour Grainger, better known as Toosii, has committed to play football for Fran Brown, Grainger <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/toosii2x\/status\/1995555017214824712?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/toosii2x\/status\/1995555017214824712?s=20\">announced<\/a> Monday on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LMQQJHO55JDYDEIO6RVMG26QLI\">Grainger, who has 4.5 million followers on Instagram, took a recruiting visit to Syracuse earlier this year and posted photos from that visit on social media when sharing the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BB53J6FZC5AZBNEMXW4XH5DYQY\">\u201cWhen Coach Fran called, I knew it was a sign from God,\u201d Grainger wrote on social media. \u201cSo with that being said, Cuse I\u2019m coming home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6J7MFXRAABCHZM46C77DI6UGDU\">The 25-year-old, known for his double-platinum 2023 record, Favorite Song, is taking a break from his recording career in an attempt to play Division I football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2XZLQUHV55CHDIIOW7TM6JA6ZQ\">Grainger was born in Syracuse and stayed in Central New York until the age of 12. His family then moved to North Carolina, where he played high school football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MAZITWRCGBAX5NTPOBMUJ23K7Y\">\u201cI\u2019m chasing history,\u201d Grainger said in an Aug. 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/toosii2x\/status\/1957597547704234169?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/toosii2x\/status\/1957597547704234169?s=20\">X post<\/a>. \u201cFirst multi-platinum recording artist to go back to school and play DIVISION I football. Next year I\u2019m gonna be on somebody\u2019s team mark my words!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OONSQQ5KTBFP7IHWVFXFCWQJLU\">He was at Maryland 12 days later for a gameday visit against Florida Atlantic. Grainger has been working out at North Carolina State\u2019s facilities to get in football shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Syracuse, N.Y. \u2014 Syracuse-born rapper Nau\u2019Jour Grainger, better known as Toosii, has committed to play football for Fran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-324884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}