{"id":105203,"date":"2016-04-29T23:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=105203"},"modified":"2016-04-29T23:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:48:24","slug":"dig-of-the-day-champaign-im-on-fire-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-champaign-im-on-fire-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Champaign &#8211; I&#8217;m On Fire (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dV_gRMtjBAs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A little contrast from the ruggedness past few days to something totally smooth&#8230; Today we have some mad soul you might&#8217;ve heard some time ago, the song called <em>I&#8217;m On Fire<\/em>. It crossed my mind yesterday and listenin&#8217; to it as I write this, I haven&#8217;t heard it in years man. <\/p>\n<p>The song is performed by <strong>Champaign<\/strong>, an R&#038;B soul group active from\t1981\u20131984, 1990\u20131991, 2008\u2013present, who named themselves after their hometown of Champaign, Illinois. They released several albums to this date. <em>I&#8217;m On Fire<\/em> is their first single released in &#8217;81 and appears on their debut album <em>How &#8216;Bout Us<\/em> in the same year. In my opinion, the whole album should be this one song.<\/p>\n<p>A soul healer.<\/p>\n<p>Arranged by <strong>James Mack<\/strong><br \/>\nProduced by <strong>Leo Graham<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"105211\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-champaign-im-on-fire-1981\/champaign\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/champaign.jpg?fit=212%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"212,200\" 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=\"champaign\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/champaign.jpg?fit=212%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/champaign.jpg?fit=212%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/champaign.jpg?resize=312%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"champaign\" width=\"312\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105211\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little contrast from the ruggedness past few days to something totally smooth&#8230; Today we&#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-105203","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-rmP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105203","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=105203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}