Common will be 10x more "rich and famous" than he ever was. All he had to do was stand up the Obamas.
Of course, that was AFTER he got the phone call.
The White House didn't uninvite him publicly and him not showing up got him another 48hrs in the news cycle.
Yes and no. It was under the bus with him, mostly because the announcement of his presence had created such a furor among people Bambi needs to be reelected (the white guilt crowd, mostly middle income women between the ages of 18 and 65 and middle income men between the ages of 30 and 50) that they thought it expedient to move him onto another track.
That is, Bambi & Co didn’t renounce him. He’s still out there, and his homies know it was only the eeevil white man that forced Bambi to make this gesture.