{"id":1643,"date":"2026-02-05T07:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:24:31","slug":"lil-jons-son-dj-young-slade-reported-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/lil-jons-son-dj-young-slade-reported-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Jon\u2019s Son DJ Young Slade Reported Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of Concerns mounting for <strong>Lil Jon<\/strong> and his family following reports that his son, <strong>DJ Young Slade<\/strong>, has been declared missing in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>According to local authorities, the 28-year-old, born<strong> Nathan Murray Smith<\/strong>, reportedly left his Milton home on foot and has not been seen since. Police noted that he was without a phone, may be disoriented, and could require assistance. An active police situation was also reported in a nearby park, though officials stressed there is no danger to the public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>A representative for the hitmaker made a statement to TMZ saying:<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe family is asking for privacy at this time. We are also asking for continued prayers for Nathan to come home safe. Thank you\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Young Slade has been carving his own lane in music in recent years, often crediting his father\u2019s guidance and work ethic as inspiration. In a past interview, Lil Jon spoke proudly about watching his son set into the industry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"primis10TGJ\" data-refreshrate=\"0\">Authorities are urging anyone with information to come forward.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of Concerns mounting for Lil Jon and his family following reports that his son, DJ Young Slade, has been declared missing in Georgia. According to local authorities, the 28-year-old, born Nathan Murray Smith, reportedly left his Milton home on foot and has not been seen since. Police noted that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[160],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","author-urbanafrica"],"authors":[{"term_id":160,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"urbanafrica","display_name":"URBANAFRICA","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-FFB50F59-0D6C-491C-BACA-64123F72D056.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africahalloffame.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}