{"id":138298,"date":"2019-07-05T22:27:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=138298"},"modified":"2019-07-06T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T11:01:33","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-too-poetic-god-made-me-funky-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-too-poetic-god-made-me-funky-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day: Too Poetic &#8211; God Made Me Funky (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L7cq3Rby8rA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes lord. Sorry for the wait, we back in this b-i-t-c-h and got some serious shiiiit waitin\u2019 4 ya\u2019ll in the upcoming posts so stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Today, or should I say, tonite (shoutout\u00a0<strong>Phantom Raa<\/strong>), we have a hard joint with a familiar sample from the Strong Island by the late brother\u00a0<strong>Too Poetic<\/strong>\u00a0aka\u00a0<strong>The Grym Reaper<\/strong>\u00a0on the funky tip.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of NYC underground group\u00a0<strong>Gravediggaz<\/strong>\u00a0along with RZA, Prince Paul &amp; Frukwan until he sadly passed away in LA in 2001.\u00a0<em>God Made Me Funky<\/em>was a<em>\u00a0dope<\/em>\u00a0single, released in \u201989 on\u00a0<strong>Tommy Boy<\/strong>\u00a0<b>Records<\/b>. His solo album was shelved.<\/p>\n<p>Engineered, mixed and produced by\u00a0<strong>J. Tinsley, Paul C.<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Poetic Productions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>RIP\u00a0<strong>Paul C. McKasty<\/strong>\u00a0(September 20, 1964 \u2013 July 4, 1989) and\u00a0<strong>Anthony Ian Berkeley<\/strong>\u00a0(November 15, 1964 \u2013 July 15, 2001).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"138299\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-too-poetic-god-made-me-funky-1989\/r-312701-1397599667-4746-jpeg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/R-312701-1397599667-4746.jpeg.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" 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=\"R-312701-1397599667-4746.jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/R-312701-1397599667-4746.jpeg.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138299\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/R-312701-1397599667-4746.jpeg.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/R-312701-1397599667-4746.jpeg.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/R-312701-1397599667-4746.jpeg.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/R-312701-1397599667-4746.jpeg.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Yes lord. Sorry for the wait, we back in this b-i-t-c-h and got some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-zYC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138298","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}