{"id":101359,"date":"2016-02-08T21:33:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=101359"},"modified":"2016-02-08T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:33:40","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-lauryn-hill-erykah-badu-on-def-poetry-jam-20032006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-lauryn-hill-erykah-badu-on-def-poetry-jam-20032006\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day: Lauryn Hill \/ Erykah Badu On Def Poetry Jam (2003\/2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPj7465DaE0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we have a truly unique video from <strong>Def Poetry Jam<\/strong>, a spoken word poetry television series hosted by <strong>Mos Def<\/strong> and aired on HBO between 2002 and 2007. The series featured performances by established and up-and-coming spoken word poets.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s unique is that someone had a brilliant idea and put on a couple of <strong>J Dilla<\/strong> beats which fit absolutely perfect throughout the video. In the first half of the video you can see <strong>Lauryn Hill<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Motives and Thought<\/em>, from 2006 Season 5 Episode 1 and in the second half, <strong>Erykah Badu<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Friends, Fans and Artists Must Meet<\/em>, from 2003 Season 2 Episode 2.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"101360\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-lauryn-hill-erykah-badu-on-def-poetry-jam-20032006\/tumblr_llfaz1bimc1qearaqo1_500\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_llfaz1BiMC1qearaqo1_500.jpg?fit=500%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,421\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tumblr_llfaz1BiMC1qearaqo1_500\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_llfaz1BiMC1qearaqo1_500.jpg?fit=500%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_llfaz1BiMC1qearaqo1_500.jpg?fit=500%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tumblr_llfaz1BiMC1qearaqo1_500.jpg?resize=500%2C421&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"tumblr_llfaz1BiMC1qearaqo1_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-101360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have a truly unique video from Def Poetry Jam, a spoken word poetry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-qmP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}