{"id":105003,"date":"2016-04-26T22:25:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=105003"},"modified":"2016-04-26T22:25:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:25:43","slug":"dig-of-the-day-artifacts-whassup-now-muthafuka-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-artifacts-whassup-now-muthafuka-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Artifacts &#8211; Whassup Now Muthafu*ka? (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v2d3aephll4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Get a blanket, a blunt, lights out and prepare for pumpin&#8217; up the volume bigtime. Back with New Jersey&#8217;s legendary underground group <strong>Artifacts<\/strong>, on a super ill &#8220;UGH&#8221; type &#8216;a insane beat with perfectly fitted  <strong>Kool G Rap<\/strong>&#8216;s vocal sample in the chorus along with <strong>El&#8217;<\/strong>s and <strong>Tame<\/strong>&#8216;s ruff raps. <\/p>\n<p>They were active from \u201992 -\u201997 and again from 2013, also known as <strong>Brick City Kids<\/strong>, under which name they released a 12\u2033 with 2 tracks back in \u201997. <\/p>\n<p> <em>Whassup Now Muthafu*ka?<\/em>  is off their magnificent debut <em>Between A Rock And A Hard Place<\/em> released on <strong>Big Beat<\/strong> in the magic year of 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>T-Ray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sh*t is real.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"105062\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-artifacts-whassup-now-muthafuka-1994\/20120404-085134-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20120404-085134-1.jpg?fit=616%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"616,495\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20120404-085134-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20120404-085134-1.jpg?fit=540%2C434&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20120404-085134-1.jpg?fit=616%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20120404-085134-1.jpg?fit=640%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20120404-085134-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-105062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20120404-085134-1.jpg?resize=540%2C434&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/20120404-085134-1.jpg?w=616&amp;ssl=1 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a blanket, a blunt, lights out and prepare for pumpin&#8217; up the volume bigtime&#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-105003","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-rjB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105003","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=105003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}