{"id":138598,"date":"2019-07-27T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T08:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=138598"},"modified":"2019-07-26T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:59:37","slug":"eric-b-rakims-follow-the-leader-re-imagined-in-the-style-of-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/eric-b-rakims-follow-the-leader-re-imagined-in-the-style-of-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric B. &#038; Rakim&#8217;s &#8216;Follow the Leader&#8217; Re-Imagined In The Style Of Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"138599\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/eric-b-rakims-follow-the-leader-re-imagined-in-the-style-of-jazz\/https___s3-us-west-2-amazonaws\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/https___s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.jpg?fit=684%2C684&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"684,684\" 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=\"https___s3-us-west-2.amazonaws\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/https___s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.jpg?fit=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/https___s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/https___s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/https___s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/https___s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/https___s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.jpg?w=684&amp;ssl=1 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric B. &#038; Rakim<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Follow the Leader<\/em> is considered by many critics as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. Released on July, 26th 1988, the classic LP put <strong>Rakim<\/strong> in the conversation of the greatest MCs of all time. <\/p>\n<p>Now, 31 years later, multi-platinum producer <strong>Jonathan Hay<\/strong> recreated the entire album in the style and genre of Jazz. All 11 songs from <em>Follow the Leader <\/em>were recreated using only instrumentation, with all the songs mechanical licenses granted &#8211; meaning that <strong>Eric B. &#038; Rakim<\/strong> will be paid in full from this golden-age revisit.<\/p>\n<p>Stream <em>Lyrics Of Fury <\/em>below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/655127078&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric B. &#038; Rakim&#8216;s Follow the Leader is considered by many critics as one 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":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-A3s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138598","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=138598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}