{"id":163141,"date":"2022-04-21T09:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=163141"},"modified":"2022-04-20T12:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T10:38:42","slug":"dj-kay-slay-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dj-kay-slay-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Kay Slay Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"163142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dj-kay-slay-passed-away\/screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13-28-13\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?fit=2486%2C1316&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2486,1316\" 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 2022-04-20 at 13.28.13\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?fit=640%2C339&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?fit=640%2C286&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"286\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-163142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?resize=540%2C286&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?resize=1024%2C542&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?resize=768%2C407&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?resize=1536%2C813&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?resize=2048%2C1084&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-13.28.13.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New York City DJ, Producer &#038; graffiti artist <strong>DJ Kay Slay<\/strong> died last Sunday after a four-month battle with COVID-19. He had reportedly succumbed to complications of COVID-19 after being hospitalized with the disease in December and put on a ventilator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DJ Kay Slay<\/strong> began his career as a graffiti artist and performed hip-hop in his spare time. He was featured in the 1983 hip-hop documentary. Known as the Drama King <strong>DJ Kay Slay<\/strong>\u2019 rose through the ranks by refereeing the biggest MC battles on his <em>Streetsweeper<\/em> mixtapes. He had released four studio albums, starting with 2003&#8217;s <em>The Streetweeper, Vol. 1<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>BlackoutHipHop extends condolences to <strong>DJ Kay Slay<\/strong>\u2019s family, friends, and fans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGIEVyfarS4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/18\/nyc-hip-hop-legend-dj-kay-slay-dies-of-covid-at-55\/\" title=\"New York Post\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City DJ, Producer &#038; graffiti artist DJ Kay Slay died last Sunday after&#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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Grj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163141","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=163141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}