{"id":126986,"date":"2018-03-14T11:53:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T10:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=126986"},"modified":"2018-03-15T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:40:21","slug":"delicious-vinyl-co-founder-matt-dike-has-passed-away-at-age-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/delicious-vinyl-co-founder-matt-dike-has-passed-away-at-age-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicious Vinyl Co-Founder Matt Dike Has Passed Away At Age 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Matt-Dike-Delicious-Vinyl-Mario-Caldato-Jr.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"126988\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/delicious-vinyl-co-founder-matt-dike-has-passed-away-at-age-55\/matt-dike-delicious-vinyl-mario-caldato-jr\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Matt-Dike-Delicious-Vinyl-Mario-Caldato-Jr.jpg?fit=980%2C653&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"980,653\" 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=\"Matt-Dike-Delicious-Vinyl-Mario-Caldato-Jr\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Matt-Dike-Delicious-Vinyl-Mario-Caldato-Jr.jpg?fit=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-126988\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Matt-Dike-Delicious-Vinyl-Mario-Caldato-Jr.jpg?fit=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Matt-Dike-Delicious-Vinyl-Mario-Caldato-Jr.jpg?resize=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Matt-Dike-Delicious-Vinyl-Mario-Caldato-Jr.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Matt-Dike-Delicious-Vinyl-Mario-Caldato-Jr.jpg?w=980&amp;ssl=1 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Delicious Vinyl Records<\/em> confirmed, that <strong>Matt Dike<\/strong>, producer and co-founder of DVR, passed away at the age of 55. He was signing artist such as <strong>Young M.C.<\/strong>, <strong>Tone-Loc<\/strong>, <strong>The Pharcyde<\/strong>, <strong>Masta Ace Incorporated<\/strong> and the <strong>Brand New Heavies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Matt Dike passed away at home [in Los Angeles] after a brief illness, with his brother Lane and sister Vikyana at his side. He is survived by his siblings, and his nephew Matthew.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also read the testimonial by Matt&#8217;s friend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BgSFIibHeZJ\/?taken-by=danteross\">Dante Ross.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackout Hip Hop sends condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Matt Dike.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/ambrosiaforheads.com\/2018\/03\/delicious-vinyl-matt-dike-obituary\/?platform=hootsuite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delicious Vinyl Records confirmed, that Matt Dike, producer and co-founder of DVR, passed away at&#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-126986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-x2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126986","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=126986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}