{"id":102536,"date":"2016-03-04T23:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=102536"},"modified":"2016-03-04T23:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:31:28","slug":"dig-of-the-day-mc-lyte-have-u-ever-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-mc-lyte-have-u-ever-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: MC Lyte &#8211; Have U Ever (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lpzHPh06YSU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another smooth joint, this time from the legendary <strong>MC Lyte<\/strong>. <em>Have U Ever<\/em> is off her 5th studio album <em>Bad As I Wanna B<\/em>. She began rhymin&#8217; at the age of 12, started swingin&#8217; in &#8217;86 and put the mode to cruise in the mid 90&#8217;s, resultin&#8217; with a smooth LP. The album is released on <strong>EastWest Records America<\/strong>  in &#8217;96. She has been a huge impact ever since. <\/p>\n<p>In 2013, <strong>MC Lyte<\/strong> received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2013 Hip Hop Inaugural Ball and she also received the BET &#8220;I Am Hip Hop&#8221; Icon Lifetime Achievement Award, making her the first female solo Hip-Hop artist to receive the honor from the network.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by  <strong>Jermaine Dupri<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"102537\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-mc-lyte-have-u-ever-1996\/mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85.jpg?fit=777%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"777,438\" 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=\"mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85.jpg?fit=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85.jpg?fit=640%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85.jpg?fit=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85.jpg?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mclyte_wide-5cf6162d3766bfdaaec21782a58e3645f41c8008-s900-c85.jpg?w=777&amp;ssl=1 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another smooth joint, this time from the legendary MC Lyte. Have U Ever is off&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-qFO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102536","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=102536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}