{"id":185941,"date":"2023-09-27T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=185941"},"modified":"2023-09-24T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T12:49:49","slug":"memphis-bleek-talks-friendship-with-jay-z-aaliyah-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/memphis-bleek-talks-friendship-with-jay-z-aaliyah-so-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Bleek Talks Friendship With JAY-Z, Aaliyah & So Much More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Memphis Bleek joins N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs. He talks about growing up with Jay-Z in the Marcy projects, being loyal to ROC, turning down roles in movies like Drumline, getting high in illegal places like Dubai, wanting to be the A&R and mentor for Roc Nation artists, goals for his cannabis business, and more wild stories from the early Roc-A-Fella days. Bleek shares how he got his verse on Reasonable Doubt, battling with other rappers at the time, and his favorites from that era including artists like KRS-One. Don’t miss this episode right… HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memphis Bleek joins N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs. He talks about growing up…<\/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":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Mn3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185941","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=185941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}