{"id":118570,"date":"2017-05-20T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=118570"},"modified":"2017-05-20T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T17:17:44","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-whodini-life-is-like-a-dance-live-on-soul-train-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-whodini-life-is-like-a-dance-live-on-soul-train-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day: Whodini &#8211; Life Is Like A Dance (Live on Soul Train 1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_9HOHDhQfxw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today marks another release date, to be more exact, 30 years ago, the legendary Brookyln oldschool group <strong>Whodini<\/strong>, released their 4th album <em>Open Sesame<\/em>. Anniversaries of significant or slept-on rap albums  will be  featured more frequently on <strong><em>Dig Of The Day<\/em><\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Whodini<\/strong>  were founded in 1981 in Brooklyn, released 6 albums and numerous singles. We have a live version of <em>Life Is Like  Dance<\/em> on <strong>Soul Train<\/strong>, the same year they released <em>Open Sesame<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Larry Smith<\/strong> (RIP)<\/p>\n<p>The jam.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"118573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-whodini-life-is-like-a-dance-live-on-soul-train-1987\/eric-b-and-rakim-whodini-kool-moe-dee-dj-watkins-and-tony-tee\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Eric-B-and-Rakim-Whodini-Kool-Moe-Dee-DJ-Watkins-and-Tony-Tee.jpg?fit=604%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"604,453\" 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=\"Eric B and Rakim, Whodini, Kool Moe Dee, DJ Watkins and Tony Tee\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Eric-B-and-Rakim-Whodini-Kool-Moe-Dee-DJ-Watkins-and-Tony-Tee.jpg?fit=604%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Eric-B-and-Rakim-Whodini-Kool-Moe-Dee-DJ-Watkins-and-Tony-Tee.jpg?fit=640%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-118573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Eric-B-and-Rakim-Whodini-Kool-Moe-Dee-DJ-Watkins-and-Tony-Tee.jpg?resize=540%2C405&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Eric-B-and-Rakim-Whodini-Kool-Moe-Dee-DJ-Watkins-and-Tony-Tee.jpg?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks another release date, to be more exact, 30 years ago, the legendary Brookyln&#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-118570","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-uQq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118570","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=118570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}