{"id":103177,"date":"2016-03-17T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T19:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=103177"},"modified":"2016-03-17T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T19:29:20","slug":"dig-of-the-day-govna-mattic-concussion-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-govna-mattic-concussion-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Govna Mattic &#8211; Concussion (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHlSii8R9Oc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we got a short but always sweet slept-on material from Newark&#8217;s underground legend <strong>Govna Mattic<\/strong> also known as <strong>Tha Governer<\/strong> and <strong>Gov Mattic<\/strong>, who got into the Hip-Hop scene early on as a member of the local Newark, New Jersey Hip-Hop collective <strong>Revolutionary Party of Terrace<\/strong>. I couldn&#8217;t find any material from them as they probably never released any.<\/p>\n<p>The group formed in the late 1980&#8217;s and included such up-and-comers as <strong>Redman<\/strong> and several rappers that would become part of the group <strong>Lords Of The Underground<\/strong>. In the 1990&#8217;s <strong>Gov Mattic <\/strong> teamed up with another local cat to form the group<strong> Diezzle Don &#038; Tha Govener<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gov Mattic<\/strong> continues to appear on underground mixtape releases and is now known more for his production work as he worked with<strong> Redman &#038; Method Man, LOTUG, The Ousidaz, Craig Mack, Yuk Mouth, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Leela James, Runt Dawg, Brick Mob<\/strong> etc.<\/p>\n<p><em>Concussion<\/em>  is off his solo debut <em>Hell Up In Newark &#8211; The Mental Picture Soundtrack<\/em> , released on <strong>Lost Trybe Records<\/strong> in &#8217;98.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"103178\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-govna-mattic-concussion-1998\/r-2402766-1282045133-jpeg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg.jpg?fit=544%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"544,540\" 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=\"R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg.jpg?fit=540%2C536&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg.jpg?fit=544%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg.jpg?fit=640%2C536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"536\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg.jpg?resize=540%2C536&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/R-2402766-1282045133.jpeg.jpg?w=544&amp;ssl=1 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we got a short but always sweet slept-on material from Newark&#8217;s underground legend Govna&#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-103177","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-qQ9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103177","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=103177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}