{"id":106224,"date":"2016-05-24T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=106224"},"modified":"2016-05-24T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T10:36:31","slug":"the-roots-are-chosen-for-the-nba-finals-theme-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-roots-are-chosen-for-the-nba-finals-theme-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roots Are Chosen For The NBA Finals Theme Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"106225\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-roots-are-chosen-for-the-nba-finals-theme-song\/the-roots1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-Roots1.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" 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=\"The rooots\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-Roots1.jpg?fit=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-Roots1.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-Roots1.jpg?fit=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The rooots\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-Roots1.jpg?resize=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/The-Roots1.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the year the duo of DJ Premier &#038; Royce 5\u20199\u2033, were commissioned to create the theme song for ESPN\u2019s NBA Countdown. The song is named  \u201cRockin\u2019 With The Best\u201d and it includes one minute of pure boom bap Hip-Hop, accompanied by a video featuring footage of the league\u2019s biggest and brightest stars.<\/p>\n<p>For the NBA final theme song  The Roots were picked. \u201cSuccess in life comes when you simply refuse to give up,\u201d says Black Thought in the song\u2019s opening. They wouldn\u2019t conform to theme song conventions, they rather created a full song with substantive lyrical content and a lush musical arrangement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/86g7YD1AiQ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the year the duo of DJ Premier &#038; Royce 5\u20199\u2033, were commissioned to&#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-106224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-rDi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106224","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=106224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}