{"id":165561,"date":"2022-06-28T13:58:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=165561"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T12:03:43","slug":"phocuz-j-mac-share-marathon-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/phocuz-j-mac-share-marathon-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Phocuz &#038; J-Mac Share &#8216;Marathon&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YaKgSj3tVKc\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>North Carolina&#8217;s rapper\/producer duo <strong>Phocuz &amp; J-Mac<\/strong> are set to release their much-anticipated <em>Vibes R Eternal, Vol. 2<\/em> album via 4th Quarter Time\/Soulspazm. The duo shares the official music video for the album&#8217;s opener <em>&#8220;Marathon&#8221;<\/em>. <em>James Baldwin<\/em> opens the visual with a monologue on artistic integrity, a concept neither Phocuz nor J-Mac take lightly.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The video&#8217;s concept was actually meant to just portray what I do on a regular day of the week: coffee, record shop. While my license was suspended, I would see the dope boys pass me on the sidewalk in fly cars. The video opens with James Baldwin speaking of artistic integrity, which I find very important, so I wanted to express that in this video. Change and progress towards human equality doesn\u2019t happen fast in this country&#8230; So just like an artist fights for his integrity over time we are fighting for that same thing in our daily lives. It\u2019s been a race to get in the industry and it\u2019s going to be a marathon to get to the top of it&#8211; much like the marathon that we as a people have been running for equality.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Phocuz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"165571\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/phocuz-j-mac-share-marathon-video\/phocuz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/phocuz.jpg?fit=1231%2C837&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1231,837\" 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=\"phocuz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/phocuz.jpg?fit=640%2C435&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165571\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/phocuz.jpg?fit=640%2C367&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/phocuz.jpg?resize=540%2C367&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/phocuz.jpg?resize=1024%2C696&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/phocuz.jpg?resize=768%2C522&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/phocuz.jpg?w=1231&amp;ssl=1 1231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina&#8217;s rapper\/producer duo Phocuz &amp; J-Mac are set to release their much-anticipated Vibes R&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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-165561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-H4l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165561","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}