{"id":153188,"date":"2021-06-17T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=153188"},"modified":"2021-06-16T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T10:03:42","slug":"smooth-b-on-the-fresh-era-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/smooth-b-on-the-fresh-era-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Smooth B on the Fresh Era Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"153189\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/smooth-b-on-the-fresh-era-podcast\/screenshot-2021-06-16-130156\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-130156.jpg?fit=782%2C772&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"782,772\" 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=\"Screenshot 2021-06-16 130156\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-130156.jpg?fit=540%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-130156.jpg?fit=640%2C632&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-130156.jpg?fit=640%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-153189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-130156.jpg?resize=540%2C533&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-130156.jpg?resize=768%2C758&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-16-130156.jpg?w=782&amp;ssl=1 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most people know <strong>Smooth B<\/strong> for the legendary hip-hop hits he and his partner, <strong>Greg Nice<\/strong>, made as <strong>Nice &#038; Smooth<\/strong>. But few know about his origin story. This episode of <strong>Fresh Era<\/strong> introduces us to his twin &#8220;street scientist&#8221; older brothers who showed him the ropes on washing car windows gaining him access to the famed Bronx nightclub The Sparkle in the 70s, to his early days of touring with Bobby Brown. <\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/fresh-era\/episodes\/8af59a0c-4b9a-4293-9cf3-e767df7e4c34\/embed?theme=dark-green\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know Smooth B for the legendary hip-hop hits he and his partner, Greg&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-DQM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153188","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=153188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}