{"id":117250,"date":"2017-04-08T00:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=117250"},"modified":"2017-04-08T00:18:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T22:18:58","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-das-efx-mic-checka-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-das-efx-mic-checka-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day: Das EFX &#8211; Mic Checka (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Vop4nbQrB4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>April 7th 1992&#8230; 25 years ago, one of the most original rap groups to ever come out, <strong>Das EFX<\/strong>, dropped their sewerlicious debut, titled <em>Dead Serious<\/em> and the rest is history. <em>Mic Checka<\/em> is their well known material which also serves as the first track on the LP.  <\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Brooklyn, NY (<strong>Skoob<\/strong>) and Teaneck, NJ (<strong>Drayz<\/strong>), they got together and formed <strong>Das EFX<\/strong> while in college at Virginia State University. The first part of the group name <strong>Das<\/strong> stands for \u201c<strong>Dray and Skoob<\/strong>\u201d and the \u201c<strong>EFX<\/strong>\u201d meaning \u201ceffects\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the early 90\u2019s they became known due to their affiliation with <strong>EPMD\u2019s Hit Squad<\/strong>, after coming in second place at a talent contest judged by <strong>EPMD<\/strong> and due to their stream of consciousness lyrical delivery, which became one of the most influential lyrical styles in Hip-Hop at the time. A legendary group without a shadow of a doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Chris Charity<\/strong> and <strong>Derek Lynch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"117251\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-das-efx-mic-checka-1992\/das-efx-28\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/das-efx.jpg?fit=768%2C671&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,671\" 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=\"das-efx\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/das-efx.jpg?fit=640%2C559&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/das-efx-540x472.jpg?fit=640%2C472&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"472\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-117251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/das-efx.jpg?resize=540%2C472&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/das-efx.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 7th 1992&#8230; 25 years ago, one of the most original rap groups to ever&#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-117250","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-uv8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117250","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=117250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}