{"id":2503,"date":"2016-11-05T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T11:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/?page_id=2503"},"modified":"2016-11-16T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T09:05:12","slug":"african-american-music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=2503","title":{"rendered":"African American Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span id=\"Origins_in_hip_hop\" class=\"mw-headline\">hip hop<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hip Hop: The Early Years 1979 - 1986 (HD)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XXhE_6koCtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones<\/strong> (<span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups\"><a title=\"Help:IPA for English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_English\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">\/<span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0251\u02d0\/ 'a' in 'father'\">\u0251\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'s' in 'sigh'\">s<\/span><span title=\"\/\u026a\u0259r\/ 'ear' in 'beard'\">\u026a\u0259r<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">\/<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/span>; born September 14, 1973), better known by his stage name <strong>Nas<\/strong> <span class=\"nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups\"><a title=\"Help:IPA for English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA_for_English\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">\/<span title=\"\/\u02c8\/ primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'n' in 'no'\">n<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0251\u02d0\/ 'a' in 'father'\">\u0251\u02d0<\/span><span title=\"'z' in 'Zion'\">z<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">\/<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/span><\/span>, is an American <a title=\"Hip hop music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hip_hop_music\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">hip hop<\/span><\/u><\/a> recording artist, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. The son of <a title=\"Jazz\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jazz\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">jazz<\/span><\/u><\/a> musician <a title=\"Olu Dara\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olu_Dara\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Olu Dara<\/span><\/u><\/a>, Nas has released eight consecutive <a title=\"Music recording sales certification\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_recording_sales_certification\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">platinum and multi-platinum<\/span><\/u><\/a> albums and has sold over 25 million records worldwide. He is also an entrepreneur through his own record label; he serves as <a title=\"Publishing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Publishing\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">associate publisher<\/span><\/u><\/a> of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Mass Appeal (magazine)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_Appeal_(magazine)\"><i><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Mass Appeal<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/a> magazine and is the owner of a <a title=\"Fila (company)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fila_(company)\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Fila<\/span><\/u><\/a> sneaker store. He is currently signed to <a title=\"Mass Appeal Records\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_Appeal_Records\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Mass Appeal Records<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His musical career began in 1991 as featured artist on <a title=\"Main Source\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Source\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Main Source<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Live at the Barbeque&#8221;. His debut album <i><a title=\"Illmatic\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illmatic\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Illmatic<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i> (1994) received universal acclaim from both critics and the hip hop community and is frequently ranked as one of the <a title=\"List of hip hop albums considered to be influential\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_hip_hop_albums_considered_to_be_influential\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">greatest hip hop albums of all time<\/span><\/u><\/a>. Nas&#8217; follow-up <i><a title=\"It Was Written\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It_Was_Written\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">It Was Written<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i> debuted at number one on the <a title=\"Billboard 200\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_200\"><u><i><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Billboard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"> 200<\/span><\/u><\/a>, stayed on top for four consecutive weeks, went double platinum in two months, and made Nas internationally known.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nas - I Can (Original song) LYRICS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xAp3VY_OEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;beatboxing&#8221; is derived from the mimicry of the first generation of <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Drum machines\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drum_machines\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">drum machines<\/span><\/u><\/a>, then known as beatboxes. &#8220;Human beatboxing&#8221; in hip-hop originated in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sonny Boy Williamson I`m A Lonely Man\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6EiqNjdBkdo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alex Miller (possibly December 5, 1912 &#8212; May 25, 1965), known professionally as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, from Mississippi. He is acknowledged as one of the most charismatic and influential blues musicians, with considerable prowess on the harmonica and highly creative songwriting skills. He recorded successfully in the 1950s and 1960s, and had a direct influence on later blues and rock performers.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"African-American_work_songs\" class=\"mw-headline\">African-American work songs<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"African-American_work_song\"><\/span> African American work songs originally developed in the era of captivity, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Because they were part of an almost entirely oral culture they had no fixed form and only began to be recorded as the era of slavery came to an end after 1865. <a title=\"Slave Songs of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slave_Songs_of_the_United_States\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Slave Songs of the United States<\/span><\/u><\/a> was the first collection of African American &#8216;slave songs.&#8217; It was published in 1867 by <a title=\"William Francis Allen\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Francis_Allen\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">William Francis Allen<\/span><\/u><\/a>, <a title=\"Charles Pickard Ware\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Pickard_Ware\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Charles Pickard Ware<\/span><\/u><\/a>, and <a title=\"Lucy McKim Garrison\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucy_McKim_Garrison\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Lucy McKim Garrison<\/span><\/u><\/a>. Many slave song origins are found in African song traditions, and may have been sung to remind the Africans of home, while others were instituted by the captors to raise morale and keep Africans working in rhythm. They have also been seen as a means of withstanding hardship and expressing anger and frustration through creativity or covert verbal opposition.<\/p>\n<p>A common feature of African American songs was the <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Call-and-response\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Call-and-response\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">call-and-response<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i> format, where a leader would sing a verse or verses and the others would respond with a chorus. This came from African traditions of agricultural work song and found its way into the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Spirituals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirituals\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">spirituals<\/span><\/u><\/a> that developed once Africans in bondage began to convert to Christianity and from there to both <a title=\"Gospel music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gospel_music\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">gospel<\/span><\/u><\/a> music and the <a title=\"Blues\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blues\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">blues<\/span><\/u><\/a>. Also evident were <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Field hollers\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Field_hollers\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">field hollers<\/span><\/u><\/a>, shouts, and moans, which may have been originally designed for different bands or individuals to locate each other and narrative songs that used folk tales and folk motifs, often making use of homemade instruments.<u> <\/u>In early African captivity drums were used to provide rhythm, but they were banned in later years because of the fear that Africans would use them to communicate in a rebellion; nevertheless, Africans managed to generate percussion and percussive sounds, using other instruments or their own bodies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Field hollers et work songs\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZXlCB31i_5U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spoken Word<\/p>\n<p><b>Spoken word<\/b> is an <a title=\"Speech\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speech\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">oral<\/span><\/u><\/a> art that focuses on the aesthetics of <a title=\"Word play\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Word_play\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">word play<\/span><\/u><\/a> and <a title=\"Intonation (linguistics)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intonation_(linguistics)\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">intonation<\/span><\/u><\/a> and <a title=\"Human voice\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_voice\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">voice<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a title=\"Inflection\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inflection\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">inflection<\/span><\/u><\/a>. It is a &#8216;catchall&#8217; that includes any kind of <a title=\"Poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poetry\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">poetry<\/span><\/u><\/a> recited aloud, including <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Hip-hop\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hip-hop\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">hip-hop<\/span><\/u><\/a>, <a title=\"Jazz poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jazz_poetry\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">jazz poetry<\/span><\/u><\/a>, <a title=\"Poetry slam\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poetry_slam\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">poetry slams<\/span><\/u><\/a>, traditional <a title=\"Poetry reading\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poetry_reading\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">poetry readings<\/span><\/u><\/a> and can include <a title=\"Comedy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comedy\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">comedy<\/span><\/u><\/a> routines and &#8216;<a title=\"Prose\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prose\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">prose<\/span><\/u><\/a> <a title=\"Monologue\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monologue\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">monologues<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>Some American spoken-word poetry originated from the poetry of the <a title=\"Harlem Renaissance\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Harlem Renaissance<\/span><\/u><\/a>,<sup id=\"cite_ref-18\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spoken_word#cite_note-18\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc; font-size: small;\">[18]<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/sup> <a title=\"Blues\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blues\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">blues<\/span><\/u><\/a> music, as well as the 1960s <a title=\"Beat Generation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beat_Generation\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Beat Generation<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-19\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spoken_word#cite_note-19\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc; font-size: small;\">[19]<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/sup> Spoken word in African American culture drew on a rich literary and musical heritage. <a title=\"Langston Hughes\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langston_Hughes\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Langston Hughes<\/span><\/u><\/a> and writers of the <a title=\"Harlem Renaissance\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Harlem Renaissance<\/span><\/u><\/a> were inspired by the feelings of the <a title=\"Blues\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blues\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">blues<\/span><\/u><\/a> and <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Spirituals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirituals\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">spirituals<\/span><\/u><\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Hip-hop\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hip-hop\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">hip-hop<\/span><\/u><\/a> and <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Slam poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slam_poetry\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">slam poetry<\/span><\/u><\/a> artists were inspired by poets such as Hughes in their word stylings.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Folkways_20-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spoken_word#cite_note-Folkways-20\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc; font-size: small;\">[20]<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Civil Rights Movement\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Rights_Movement\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Civil Rights Movement<\/span><\/u><\/a> also influenced spoken word. Notable speeches such as <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Martin Luther King\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Martin Luther King<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a title=\"I Have a Dream\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Have_a_Dream\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">I Have a Dream<\/span><\/u><\/a>,&#8221; <a title=\"Sojourner Truth\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sojourner_Truth\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Sojourner Truth<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a title=\"Ain't I a Woman?\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ain%27t_I_a_Woman%3F\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Ain&#8217;t I a Woman?<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8221; and <a title=\"Booker T. Washington\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Booker_T._Washington\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Booker T. Washington<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a class=\"new\" title=\"Cast Down Your Buckets (page does not exist)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Cast_Down_Your_Buckets&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Cast Down Your Buckets<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8221; incorporated elements of oration that influenced the spoken word movement within the African American community.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Folkways_20-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spoken_word#cite_note-Folkways-20\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc; font-size: small;\">[20]<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/sup> <a title=\"The Last Poets\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Poets\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">The Last Poets<\/span><\/u><\/a> was a poetry and political music group formed during the 1960s that was born out of the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Civil Rights movement\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Rights_movement\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Civil Rights movement<\/span><\/u><\/a>, and helped increase the popularity of spoken word within African American culture.<sup id=\"cite_ref-21\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spoken_word#cite_note-21\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc; font-size: small;\">[21]<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Spoken word poetry entered into wider American culture following the release of <a title=\"Gil Scott-Heron\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gil_Scott-Heron\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Gil Scott-Heron<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8216;s spoken-word poem <i><a title=\"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">The Revolution Will Not Be Televised<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i> on the album <i><a title=\"Small Talk at 125th and Lenox\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Small_Talk_at_125th_and_Lenox\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Small Talk at 125th and Lenox<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i> in 1970. The <a title=\"Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuyorican_Poets_Caf%C3%A9\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9<\/span><\/u><\/a> on New York&#8217;s Lower Eastside was founded in 1973, and is one of the oldest American venues for presenting spoken-word poetry.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, competitive spoken word poetry competitions emerged, labelled &#8216;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Poetry slams\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poetry_slams\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">poetry slams<\/span><\/u><\/a>.&#8217; The poetry slam movement reached a wider audience following <a title=\"Russell Simmons\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell_Simmons\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Russell Simmons<\/span><\/u><\/a>&#8216; <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Def Poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Def_Poetry\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Def Poetry<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i>, which was aired on <a title=\"HBO\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HBO\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">HBO<\/span><\/u><\/a> between 2002 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gil Scott-Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Final Monday\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/25041693?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slam - &quot;Sha-Clack-Clack&quot; by Ray aka Saul Williams\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ojDKI8JxfLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Def Poetry Jam - Saul Williams (Coded Language)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jzY2-GRDiPM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hip hop Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (\/n\u0251\u02d0\u02c8s\u026a\u0259r\/; born September 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Nas \/\u02c8n\u0251\u02d0z\/, is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor and entrepreneur. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas has released eight consecutive platinum and multi-platinum albums and has sold over 25 million records<span class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2503","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2503\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}