{"id":110641,"date":"2016-09-29T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=110641"},"modified":"2016-09-29T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:24:09","slug":"the-life-story-of-james-dewitt-yancey-is-a-childrens-book-about-j-dillas-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-life-story-of-james-dewitt-yancey-is-a-childrens-book-about-j-dillas-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life Story of James Dewitt Yancey  Is A Children&#8217;s Book About  J Dilla\u2019s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AM8pw7FqYl4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Maureen \u201cMa Dukes\u201d Yancey, mother of highly revered producer James \u201cJ Dilla\u201d Yancey is profuse in keeping his memory alive. She was the guest at Hot 97 where she discussed her son\u2019s legacy with Peter Rosenberg and announced the forthcoming children\u2019s book, a biography of J Dilla\u2019s life entitled The &#8220;Life Story of James Dewitt Yancey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell you how very happy I am about the first series of my children\u2019s book titled The Life Story of JDilla,\u201d Ma Dukes said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s been an amazing quest for the Foundation as we gear up to support the education of youth by inspiring them to pick up an instrument and enhance their creativity and learn to appreciate the arts. This book can be enjoyed by the very young, as an audio is also available. It\u2019s an example of striving to be all you can be and working hard to achieve ones goals in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"110642\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-life-story-of-james-dewitt-yancey-is-a-childrens-book-about-j-dillas-life\/maxresdefault-37\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" 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=\"\u201cMa Dukes\u201d\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?fit=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?fit=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u201cMa Dukes\u201d \" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-110642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maxresdefault-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen \u201cMa Dukes\u201d Yancey, mother of highly revered producer James \u201cJ Dilla\u201d Yancey is profuse&#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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-sMx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110641","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=110641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}