{"id":176680,"date":"2023-01-23T15:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=176680"},"modified":"2023-01-25T08:34:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:34:18","slug":"video-macklemore-feat-dj-premier-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-macklemore-feat-dj-premier-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Macklemore Feat. DJ Premier &#8211; Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynlD8U_TvTs\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>DJ Premier<\/strong> remains one of Hip-Hop&#8217;s busiest producers and today he dropped &#8220;<em>Heroes<\/em>&#8221; with <strong>Macklemore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the song, <strong>Macklemore<\/strong> speaks about how he looked up to the bad guys as a youth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>When I grew up criminals were my heroes, the beanie from New Jersey drive over my earlobes,&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Mack<\/strong> rhymes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Preemo<\/strong> laces <strong>Mack<\/strong> with a horn-heavy boom bap track with his signature scratched vocal for the hook. A track is produced by <strong>Budo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a promo video for the single, <strong>Premier<\/strong> speaks about what keeps him going.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The new stuff can&#8217;t exist without the root of it,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I&#8217;m addicted to keeping the culture alive. Sixteen years later and I&#8217;m ready to cook up another banger. And I still enjoy it. If I stop, I feel that a big chunk will be missing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Heroes<\/em>&#8221; is the first single from <strong>Macklemore&#8217;s<\/strong> upcoming album\u00a0<em>Ben.\u00a0<\/em>His UK and Europe tour of the same name kicks off in April.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"176681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-macklemore-feat-dj-premier-heroes\/dj-premier-macklemore\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?fit=1581%2C1054&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1581,1054\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"DJ Premier Macklemore\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?fit=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176681 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?fit=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?resize=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?w=1581&amp;ssl=1 1581w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DJ-Premier-Macklemore.webp?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff DJ Premier remains one of Hip-Hop&#8217;s busiest producers and today he dropped &#8220;Heroes&#8221; with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-176680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-JXG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176680","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}