{"id":125996,"date":"2018-02-19T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=125996"},"modified":"2018-02-17T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T15:07:00","slug":"the-story-of-combat-jack-hip-hops-flagship-podcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-story-of-combat-jack-hip-hops-flagship-podcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Combat Jack, Hip-Hop\u2019s Flagship Podcaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"125997\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-story-of-combat-jack-hip-hops-flagship-podcaster\/14-combat-jack-w710-h473\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/14-combat-jack.w710.h473.jpg?fit=710%2C473&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"710,473\" 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=\"14-combat-jack.w710.h473\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/14-combat-jack.w710.h473.jpg?fit=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/14-combat-jack.w710.h473.jpg?fit=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/14-combat-jack.w710.h473.jpg?fit=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-125997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/14-combat-jack.w710.h473.jpg?resize=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/14-combat-jack.w710.h473.jpg?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulture<\/strong> released an overview of the life and last moments of Hip-Hop\u2019s flagship podcaster <strong>Combat Jack<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Reggie Oss\u00e9<\/strong>, better known as <strong>Combat Jack<\/strong>, lost his fight against cancer last December. He started as a lawyer in the early 90s in <strong>Def Jam<\/strong>, became managing editor of <strong>The Source<\/strong>, later on worked as a blogger under the pseudonym <strong>Combat Jack<\/strong>, then used the name as a podcaster in 2010. <strong>Combat Jack<\/strong> helped shape the careers of many, his <strong>Combat Jack Show<\/strong> became an institution in the early podcast days and has an archive of 450 episodes. His death was a huge loss for the Hip-Hop community and caused a lot of reactions coming forth to pay tribute to the great <strong>Combat Jack<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole story via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/02\/the-story-of-combat-jack-hip-hops-flagship-podcaster.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.vulture.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulture released an overview of the life and last moments of Hip-Hop\u2019s flagship podcaster Combat&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-wMc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125996","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=125996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}