{"id":104391,"date":"2016-04-13T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=104391"},"modified":"2016-04-13T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T13:50:08","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-clever-jeff-the-city-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-clever-jeff-the-city-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day: Clever Jeff &#8211; The City (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:mtvbase.com:157db6e4-6961-11e2-8a73-0026b9414f30\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mtvbase.com\">The City (Video)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Today we have an extremely rare video from a slept-on intelligent brother named <strong>Clever Jeff<\/strong> and his depiction of San Francisco in the song <em>The City<\/em> from his hard to find debut album <em>Jazz Hop Soul<\/em> released on <strong>Qwest Records<\/strong> in &#8217;94.<\/p>\n<p>As an independent artist, <strong>Jeff<\/strong> strives to create socially conscious music with meaning that both moves the feet and heals the soul. Growing up in a household rich with music, his early influences included <strong>Roy Ayers, Slave, Ohio Players, Earth Wind and Fire, Parliament, George Clinton<\/strong> and the full roster of soul, r&#038;b, funk and jazz artists. <\/p>\n<p>His mother was a singer and his uncles were musicians. By age ten, <strong>Jeff<\/strong> was joining in and playing in the jam sessions in the family living room. A talented free-style emcee, <strong>Jeff<\/strong> began writing down his rhymes in his late teens. Later on he found his signature singing voice which is described as soulful, honest, and smooth.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993 <strong>Jeff<\/strong> caught the attention of <strong>Quincy Jones<\/strong> who signed him to his <strong>Reprise\/Warner Brothers<\/strong> imprint, <strong>Qwest Records<\/strong>. He has continued to release albums independently over the past 2 decades under his own label, <strong>Fatius Walker Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Clever Jeff &#038; Dave G<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mad shouout to <strong>DJ Noki Nole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"104398\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-clever-jeff-the-city-1994\/clll\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" 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=\"clll\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?fit=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?fit=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"clll\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/clll.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City (Video) Today we have an extremely rare video from a slept-on intelligent brother&#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":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-r9J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104391","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=104391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}