{"id":118965,"date":"2017-06-02T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=118965"},"modified":"2017-06-01T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T17:26:16","slug":"video-mr-lif-akrobatik-the-perceptionists-mini-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-mr-lif-akrobatik-the-perceptionists-mini-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Mr. Lif &#038; Akrobatik &#8211; The Perceptionists (Mini Documentary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ciyjJpjQfx8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>12 years ago, <strong>Mr. Lif &#038; Akrobatik<\/strong>\u2019s group <strong>The Perceptionists<\/strong> were set to release their debut album on Def Jux. The Boston trio (which included <strong>DJ Fakts<\/strong> One at the time) had dropped the single <em>Memorial Day<\/em> outlining the politics of the day that were not so dissimilar to today\u2019s climate. Their debut album <em>Black Dialogue<\/em> hit and earned acclaim across the globe. This is the official Mellow Music Group mini-documentary of <strong>Mr. Lif &#038; Akrobatik (The Perceptionists)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"118968\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-mr-lif-akrobatik-the-perceptionists-mini-documentary\/c12e0bde-1c02-49b9-bd4b-9ab836a7824d\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c12e0bde-1c02-49b9-bd4b-9ab836a7824d.jpg?fit=575%2C391&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"575,391\" 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=\"c12e0bde-1c02-49b9-bd4b-9ab836a7824d\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c12e0bde-1c02-49b9-bd4b-9ab836a7824d.jpg?fit=575%2C391&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c12e0bde-1c02-49b9-bd4b-9ab836a7824d.jpg?fit=640%2C367&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-118968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c12e0bde-1c02-49b9-bd4b-9ab836a7824d.jpg?resize=540%2C367&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/c12e0bde-1c02-49b9-bd4b-9ab836a7824d.jpg?w=575&amp;ssl=1 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 years ago, Mr. Lif &#038; Akrobatik\u2019s group The Perceptionists were set to release their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-uWN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118965","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}