{"id":129805,"date":"2018-06-05T15:14:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=129805"},"modified":"2018-06-05T23:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T21:28:13","slug":"yo-mtv-raps-30th-anniversary-interview-with-ed-lover-doctor-dre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/yo-mtv-raps-30th-anniversary-interview-with-ed-lover-doctor-dre\/","title":{"rendered":"Yo! MTV Raps 30th Anniversary Interview with Ed Lover &#038; Doctor Dr\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"129806\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/yo-mtv-raps-30th-anniversary-interview-with-ed-lover-doctor-dre\/31-fabeddre-nocrop-w710-h2147483647\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31-FABEdDre.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg?fit=710%2C710&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"710,710\" 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=\"31-FABEdDre.nocrop.w710.h2147483647\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31-FABEdDre.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg?fit=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31-FABEdDre.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31-FABEdDre.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-129806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31-FABEdDre.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31-FABEdDre.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/31-FABEdDre.nocrop.w710.h2147483647.jpg?w=710&amp;ssl=1 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On June 1st <strong>Ed Lover &#038; Doctor Dr\u00e9<\/strong>, along with <strong>Fab Five Freddy<\/strong>, reunited to celebrate <em>Yo! MTV Raps: 30th-Anniversary Experience<\/em> at Barclays Center in NYC. Performances included <strong>Eric B. &#038; Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Boogie Down Productions, Onyx &#038; EPMD<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulture<\/strong> spoke with the iconic duo about their role in mainstreaming rap, their close relationship with <strong>Tupac<\/strong>, and turning <strong>Mark the 45 King<\/strong>\u2019s <em>The 900 Number<\/em> into Hip-Hop\u2019s ultimate spaz-out jam.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the whole interview <a href=\"http:\/\/amp.vulture.com\/2018\/06\/how-yo-mtv-raps-changed-hip-hop.html?__twitter_impression=true\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1st Ed Lover &#038; Doctor Dr\u00e9, along with Fab Five Freddy, reunited to&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-xLD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129805","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=129805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}