{"id":107661,"date":"2016-06-30T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=107661"},"modified":"2016-06-30T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T14:13:51","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-the-pharcyde-drop-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-the-pharcyde-drop-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Video:  Dig Of The Day: The Pharcyde &#8211; Drop (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/44oj7fSgK1E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Probably the greatest rap video ever recorded. The <strong>Spike Jonze<\/strong> directed video features footage of the group performing the song backwards, replayed backwards, which when combined with the chopped, spacey beat of the song gives the video a slight surrealistic quality. The group also had to hire a private linguistics expert to recite the entire song backwards. Imagine that..<\/p>\n<p><em>Drop<\/em> is released as a single and appears on their 2nd album  <em>LabCabinCalifornia<\/em> released in &#8217;95.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8CBsxCUhNu0\" target=\"_blank\">The Making Of<\/a> video which is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Jay Dee<\/strong> (RIP)<\/p>\n<p>Shoutout to <strong>DJ Darth Vader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"107662\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-the-pharcyde-drop-1995\/the-pharcyde\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-pharcyde.jpg?fit=500%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,452\" 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=\"the pharcyde\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-pharcyde.jpg?fit=500%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-pharcyde.jpg?fit=500%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/the-pharcyde.jpg?resize=500%2C452&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"the pharcyde\" width=\"500\" height=\"452\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107662\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the greatest rap video ever recorded. The Spike Jonze directed video features footage of&#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-107661","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-s0t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107661","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=107661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}