{"id":121963,"date":"2017-09-28T18:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=121963"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:12:55","slug":"paul-c-mckasty-the-legend-the-tragedy-the-story-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/paul-c-mckasty-the-legend-the-tragedy-the-story-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul C. McKasty: the Legend, the Tragedy, the Story of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"121964\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/paul-c-mckasty-the-legend-the-tragedy-the-story-of-an-era\/220px-paul_c\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/220px-Paul_C.jpg?fit=220%2C264&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"220,264\" 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=\"220px-Paul_C\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/220px-Paul_C.jpg?fit=220%2C264&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/220px-Paul_C.jpg?fit=220%2C264&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121964\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/220px-Paul_C.jpg?resize=220%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"264\" \/><br \/>\nRead the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/micro-chop\/paul-c-mckasty-the-legend-the-tragedy-the-story-of-an-era-aea20515d282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STORY<\/a> about the rise-and-fall of one of hip-hop\u2019s greatest production pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>Before his death on July 17, 1989, <strong>McKasty<\/strong> gained recognition for his work with notable artists such as <strong>Devo, Organized Konfusion, Kwam\u00e9, Queen Latifah, Biz Markie, Ultramagnetic MCs, Rahzel,<\/strong> and <strong>Eric B &amp; Rakim<\/strong>. Complex called him &#8220;one of the most important figures in the development of sampling&#8221; and <strong>Questlove<\/strong> of <strong>The Roots<\/strong> called McKasty, &#8220;damn near the <strong>J Dilla<\/strong> of his day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the STORY about the rise-and-fall of one of hip-hop\u2019s greatest production pioneers. Before his&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-vJ9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121963","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=121963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}