{"id":137185,"date":"2019-05-04T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=137185"},"modified":"2019-04-27T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T09:34:41","slug":"album-review-erick-sermon-vernia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/album-review-erick-sermon-vernia\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Erick Sermon \u2013 Vernia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"137186\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/album-review-erick-sermon-vernia\/a3833080789_10-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a3833080789_10-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" 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=\"a3833080789_10\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a3833080789_10-1.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a3833080789_10-1.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-137186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a3833080789_10-1.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a3833080789_10-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a3833080789_10-1.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a3833080789_10-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/a3833080789_10-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If any of you forgot about <strong>Erick Sermon<\/strong>, you shouldn&#8217;t have. The first letter of legendary <strong>EPMD<\/strong> has been funking it up, and eventually ended up with his 8th solo album called <em>Vernia<\/em>. It took him four years to make it but make no mistake, this is a serious release. From the production side of the project, <strong>Sermon<\/strong> got a few colleagues to help him out. <strong>Rockwilder, Ty Fyffe, DJ Battlecat, Apathy<\/strong> (to name a few) cooked up some serious grooves for a large diapason of MC&#8217;s that are also featured on the album. <strong>Keith Murray, Xzibit, Raekwon &#038; Too $hort<\/strong> are just a few names, but <strong>Erick<\/strong> was the only one who managed to get legendary <strong>Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<\/strong> on a track after so many years of not spitting (we heard thru the grapevine that Zagreb homie <strong>Koolade<\/strong> originally did this beat for <strong>Erick<\/strong>, but unfortunately it didn&#8217;t make the final cut). <\/p>\n<p>The album is a nice refreshment, both musically and lyrically and is most definitely worth of your time. <em>Vernia<\/em> has tracks to break your neck to, jam out to, chill out and even make babies to. <strong>Def Squad<\/strong> is back for the year 2019!<\/p>\n<p>Another one from our new music editor <strong>Re:tro Flava<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CK2bThDLmFE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any of you forgot about Erick Sermon, you shouldn&#8217;t have. The first letter of&#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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-zGF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137185","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=137185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}