{"id":164148,"date":"2022-05-21T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=164148"},"modified":"2022-05-21T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T13:51:36","slug":"jazz-funk-musician-bernard-wright-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/jazz-funk-musician-bernard-wright-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz &#038; Funk Musician Bernard Wright Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"164149\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/jazz-funk-musician-bernard-wright-passed-away\/captura-de-pantalla-2022-05-21-a-las-16-44-33\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-05-21-a-las-16.44.33.png?fit=830%2C408&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"830,408\" 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=\"Captura de pantalla 2022-05-21 a las 16.44.33\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-05-21-a-las-16.44.33.png?fit=640%2C315&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-05-21-a-las-16.44.33.png?fit=640%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"265\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-164149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-05-21-a-las-16.44.33.png?resize=540%2C265&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-05-21-a-las-16.44.33.png?resize=768%2C378&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Captura-de-pantalla-2022-05-21-a-las-16.44.33.png?w=830&amp;ssl=1 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Wright<\/strong>, the legendary New York musician who enjoyed chart success with hits such as 1985s <em>Who Do You Love<\/em> passed away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Wright<\/strong>&#8216;s music has been sampled by some of Hip Hop&#8217;s biggest stars. <em>Who Do You Love <\/em>was sampled for<strong> LL COOL J<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Loungin&#8217;<\/em>; and <em>Haboglabotribin<\/em> was sampled for <em>G&#8217;z and Hustlaz<\/em> by <strong>Snoop Doggy Dogg<\/strong> and <em>Lie To Kick It<\/em> by <strong>2Pac<\/strong>. <strong>Skee-lo<\/strong>&#8216;s smash hit <em>I Wish<\/em> contains a sample of <em>Spinnin&#8217;<\/em> and there are more than one hundred other Hip-Hop samples that use music from <strong>Wright<\/strong>&#8216;s catalog.<\/p>\n<p>BlackoutHipHop extends condolences to <strong>Bernard Wright<\/strong>\u2019s family, friends, and fans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XT48-LLs0tI\" 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:\/\/rockthebells.com\/articles\/bernard-wright-80s-rb-star-frequently-sampled-on\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rock The Bells<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Wright, the legendary New York musician who enjoyed chart success with hits such as&#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-164148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-GHy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164148","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=164148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}