{"id":738,"date":"2009-04-29T22:54:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T05:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2009-04-29T22:54:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T05:54:52","slug":"deeper-than-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/29\/deeper-than-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper Than Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been addicted to Rick Ross&#8217;s &#8220;Lay Back&#8221; for over a week now &#8211; I just cannot stop listening to it &#8211; and I&#8217;ve posted it for you here to listen to yourself &#8211; you tell me I&#8217;m out there or if its a bangin&#8217; track::<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 300px;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.imeem.com\/m\/AVfK3gK8T9\/aus=false\/\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" src=\"http:\/\/media.imeem.com\/m\/AVfK3gK8T9\/aus=false\/\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#E6E6E6;padding:1px;\">\n<div style=\"float:left;padding:4px 4px 0 0;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Best line by far: &#8220;Number 1 at whatever, I get buddles of cheddar, ditch that black cloud, you deserve wonderful weather.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe walking dichotomy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Ross_(rapper)\">Rick Ross,<\/a> a pseudo-gangster, maybe real gangster, and his feud with Fiddy has sent him to the top of the charts and made him stand out from the rest of the rap landscape.  I usually only skim the surface of what is going on in the rap world, paying attention to the most famous \/ popular (unless you happen to be affiliated with the Wu-Tang Clan) and Rick Ross has done that here by elevating himself to a level that even I am paying attention.  Not bad for a media savvy former corrections officer.  Too bad for his persona though that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricky_Ross_(drug_trafficker)\">Freeway Ricky Ross,<\/a> his inspiration, has denounced him for his law ties.<br \/>\nOne of my favorite aspects of his site is that his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/rickross\">album drop countdown clock is totally off by one month on his MySpace page<\/a>&#8211; the album has been released yet it says that is coming out over two weeks from now:<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/rickross.jpg\" alt=\"rickross.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"178\" \/><br \/>\nLast but not least, of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/23\/arts\/music\/23ross.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=rick%20ross&amp;st=cse\">I learned about Rick Ross from the most hip of places &#8211; no, not Vibe or The Source but the Grey Lady.<\/a> Yup, that is right &#8211; the N Y f&#8217;ing T baby.  Believe it or not, they provide some good rap info in the Sunday Arts and Leisure section.  Keep in mind that the NYT is the same place that a few years ago I learned about Ghostface Killah dropping a new album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been addicted to Rick Ross&#8217;s &#8220;Lay Back&#8221; for over a week now &#8211; I just cannot stop listening to it &#8211; and I&#8217;ve posted it for you here to listen to yourself &#8211; you tell me I&#8217;m out there or if its a bangin&#8217; track:: Best line by far: &#8220;Number 1 at whatever, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[431,528,539],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-rap","tag-rickross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}