{"id":414,"date":"2008-12-09T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T00:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2008-12-09T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T00:47:12","slug":"hip-hop-hagiographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/hip-hop-hagiographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-hop hagiographies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/12\/09\/common.universal.mind.control\/index.html?iref=mpstoryview>a CNN story on the rapper Common<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lyrically, violence has never been his thing; soft-drug use has been mentioned but rarely glamorized; he removed homophobic references from his lyrics years ago; and while there have been hints of misogyny and the occasional N-word in his verses, neither has been a staple of his rhymes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, as long as they&#8217;re not staples, that&#8217;s okay, then. I&#8217;m glad we had this talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a CNN story on the rapper Common: Lyrically, violence has never been his thing; soft-drug use has been mentioned but rarely glamorized; he removed homophobic references from his lyrics years ago; and while there have been hints of misogyny and the occasional N-word in his verses, neither has been a staple of his rhymes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[852,261],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-music","tag-music","tag-rap","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}