{"id":145253,"date":"2020-07-21T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=145253"},"modified":"2020-07-18T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:03:09","slug":"video-keonte-beals-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-keonte-beals-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Keont\u00e9 Beals &#8211; King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YJBE8Ym4AnQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our brother from Halifax, Nova Scotia <strong>Keont\u00e9 Beals<\/strong> dropped the video for his brand new single <em>King<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King embodies my experience of being a young, successful black man in todays society. Having to be solid and strong despite the pressures of society. Toxic masculinity that is more of a brand rather than a character trait. King doesn\u2019t describe myself as being King of everything, but rather using King as a figure of speech to symbolize the rock of a crumbling empire, the rock being myself &#038; the empire being mental health, stigma, police brutality etc. Black men are pushed into a box &#038; anything outside of that box is side-eyed and unacceptable. King is a musical war cry directly targeting the barriers of toxic masculinity &#038; stigma to get to the core. Starting the conversation. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Keont\u00e9<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"145254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-keonte-beals-king\/capture-9\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capture-5.jpg?fit=717%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"717,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Radostin Pashov&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1595073702&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=\"Capture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capture-5.jpg?fit=540%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capture-5.jpg?fit=640%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capture-5.jpg?fit=640%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-145254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capture-5.jpg?resize=540%2C255&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Capture-5.jpg?w=717&amp;ssl=1 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brother from Halifax, Nova Scotia Keont\u00e9 Beals dropped the video for his brand new&#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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-BMN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145253","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=145253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}