{"id":5381,"date":"2014-03-08T14:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punkoutlaw.com\/po09\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2014-03-08T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T18:31:57","slug":"i-generally-dont-like-hip-hop-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/2014\/03\/i-generally-dont-like-hip-hop-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I Generally Don&#8217;t Like Hip-Hop BUT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/punkoutlaw.com\/po09\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kemo-The-Blaxican-Upside-Of-Struggle-320-kbps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5383\" alt=\"Kemo-The-Blaxican-Upside-Of-Struggle-320-kbps\" src=\"http:\/\/punkoutlaw.com\/po09\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kemo-The-Blaxican-Upside-Of-Struggle-320-kbps.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kemo-The-Blaxican-Upside-Of-Struggle-320-kbps.jpg 500w, https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kemo-The-Blaxican-Upside-Of-Struggle-320-kbps-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Kemo-The-Blaxican-Upside-Of-Struggle-320-kbps-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I do like this song &#8220;Be Free&#8221; from the Black &amp; Mexican LA based artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kemotheblaxican.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Kemo the Blaxican.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AKgUsrGKVdc\" height=\"224\" width=\"398\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yup, this isn&#8217;t some commercial crap being spewed by hate and negativity.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Z may be rich but at what cost? The &#8220;N&#8221; word is common now and women are commonly referred to as &#8220;Hos&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Bitches&#8221; while Beyonce (Jay Z&#8217;s wife) makes a fine living building up the women he&#8217;s just torn down.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Simmons may be a self-proclaimed yogi but he also has a gold toilet. P-dummy is still, well, annoying as hell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/punkoutlaw.com\/po09\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DH-Photo-Shoot-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5382\" alt=\"DH Photo Shoot (31)\" src=\"http:\/\/punkoutlaw.com\/po09\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DH-Photo-Shoot-31-375x600.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DH-Photo-Shoot-31-375x600.jpg 375w, https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DH-Photo-Shoot-31-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Kemo, well Kemo the Blaxican, his stuff is from a whole different angle.\u00a0 Even the title of his CD, &#8220;The Upside Of Struggle&#8221; suggest something more thought provoking and yes, I&#8217;ll say it, &#8220;real&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For too long, &#8220;real&#8221; has been the excuse to justify negativity. Nice to see an artist who can be &#8220;real&#8221; and positive at the same time. They are not mutually exclusive. Life is both good and bad. No need focusing on the bad all the time.<\/p>\n<p>As I said in the title, I don&#8217;t generally dig hip hop but I do enjoy Kemo&#8217;s music. I thought you might too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I do like this song &#8220;Be Free&#8221; from the Black &amp; Mexican LA based artist, Kemo the Blaxican.\u00a0 Yup, this isn&#8217;t some commercial crap being spewed by hate and negativity. Jay Z may be rich but at what cost? The &#8220;N&#8221; word is common now and women are commonly referred to as &#8220;Hos&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Bitches&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2101,354,1748,2100,73,2102,2103,702,2104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punkoutlawblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}