{"id":221293,"date":"2025-12-31T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=221293"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:20:07","slug":"the-musalini-cookin-soul-never-be-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-musalini-cookin-soul-never-be-a-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Musalini &#038; Cookin Soul &#8211; Never Be A Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgrkQJy_vUE?si=350fnX0HygwzfVeW\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" 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>The Musalini<\/strong> reintroduces &#8220;Never Be A Stranger,&#8221; a collaboration with<strong> Cookin Soul\u00a0<\/strong>from their joint album, &#8220;Mackaroni.&#8221; The track is an incredibly smooth and pimpish joint. In the words of Mus himself: &#8220;This record is about connections \u2014 the ones that matter, the ones you never forget, even with distance, time, or silence in between.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"221294\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-musalini-cookin-soul-never-be-a-stranger\/mackaroni\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mackaroni.avif\" data-orig-size=\"686,386\" 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=\"Mackaroni\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mackaroni.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-221294 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mackaroni.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mackaroni.avif 686w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mackaroni-540x304.avif 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff The Musalini reintroduces &#8220;Never Be A Stranger,&#8221; a collaboration with Cookin Soul\u00a0from their joint&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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-221293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Vzf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221293","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}