{"id":103929,"date":"2016-04-03T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T09:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=103929"},"modified":"2016-04-03T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T09:06:29","slug":"bahamadia-talks-the-20th-anniversary-of-kollage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/bahamadia-talks-the-20th-anniversary-of-kollage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahamadia Talks the 20th Anniversary of &#8220;Kollage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"103932\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/bahamadia-talks-the-20th-anniversary-of-kollage\/cs1700455-02a-big\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CS1700455-02A-BIG.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,700\" 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=\"bahamadia\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CS1700455-02A-BIG.jpg?fit=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CS1700455-02A-BIG.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CS1700455-02A-BIG.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bahamadia\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-103932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CS1700455-02A-BIG.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CS1700455-02A-BIG.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CS1700455-02A-BIG.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the Internet would have us believe that rapper Bahamadia released her underrated 1996 debut album Kollage (Chrysalis\/EMI Records) on March 23, the Philly-based beat-box poet insists that the disc actually dropped on April 2. No matter when it came out, 20 years later, the gritty poet\u2019s first long-playing joint remains one of the best rap albums of that era. Coming in the pivotal year of \u201996 during the boom-bap and bling bling era of Bad Boy, Death Row and Wu-Tang (as well as Foxy Brown and Lil Kim), hip-hop culture was once again changing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebony.com\/entertainment-culture\/90s-hip-hop-bahamadia#axzz44hTownb8\" target=\"_blank\">Ebony.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Internet would have us believe that rapper Bahamadia released her underrated 1996 debut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-r2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103929","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}