{"id":148288,"date":"2020-12-26T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=148288"},"modified":"2020-12-26T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T14:17:43","slug":"dig-of-the-day-whodini-five-minutes-of-funk-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-whodini-five-minutes-of-funk-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Whodini &#8211; Five Minutes of Funk (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kwbtgcAo20k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A small tribute to one of the greatest rap vocals from one of the dopest old-school rap groups, Brooklyn-born, Wyckoff projects raised, the recently unfortunate mr. <strong>John Fletcher<\/strong>, a.k.a. <strong>Ecstasy<\/strong>, who passed away at 56 years old. He always wore a Zorro-style hat as his trademark.<\/p>\n<p>He was the co-founder of <strong>Whodini<\/strong>, the legendary rap group who apparently did the first-ever Hip-Hop music video for their 1983 single <em>Magic\u2019s Wand<\/em>, which was a tribute track to <strong>DJ Mr. Magic<\/strong>. He made music spanning numerous singles and 6 LP&#8217;s with <strong>Jalil Hutchins<\/strong>, DJ <strong>Drew Carter<\/strong>, a.k.a. <strong>Grandmaster Dee<\/strong> and <strong>Larry Smith<\/strong> who served as their main producer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Five Minutes of Funk<\/em> was released as a single on 7&#8243; ; on 12&#8243; b\/w <em>Friends<\/em> and also appears on their 2nd very influential LP titled <em>Escape<\/em>. Everything mentioned came out for <strong>Jive<\/strong> label in 1984. <\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Larry Smith<\/strong> (RIP)<\/p>\n<p>On the behalf of <strong>Blackout Hip-Hop<\/strong>, I would like to extend my sorrow and condolences to <strong>John Fletcher<\/strong>&#8216;s family and friends. One love.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"148292\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-whodini-five-minutes-of-funk-1984\/whodini-e1588106159639\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Whodini-e1588106159639.jpg?fit=532%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"532,387\" 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=\"Whodini-e1588106159639\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Whodini-e1588106159639.jpg?fit=532%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Whodini-e1588106159639.jpg?fit=532%2C387&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Whodini-e1588106159639.jpg?resize=532%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-148292\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small tribute to one of the greatest rap vocals from one of the dopest&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-CzK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148288","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=148288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}