{"id":223138,"date":"2026-02-03T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=223138"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:11:56","slug":"in-memoriam-michael-5000-watts-dj-mike-t-cmw-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/in-memoriam-michael-5000-watts-dj-mike-t-cmw-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Michael &#8220;5000&#8221; Watts &#038; DJ Mike T (CMW) R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the year is still young, we&#8217;ve unfortunately already lost prominent figures in the culture, <strong>Michael &#8220;5000&#8221; Watts<\/strong> and <strong>DJ Mike T<\/strong> of <strong>Compton&#8217;s Most Wanted<\/strong>. Two different eras, two different areas, and the same legendary status in the game. Watts was the co-founder of <em>Swishahouse Records<\/em>, a Houston-based label which released music by artists such as <strong>Paul Wall<\/strong>, <strong>Mike Jones<\/strong>, and <strong>Archie Lee<\/strong>. DJ Mike T was a member of the legendary Los Angeles group, <strong>Compton&#8217;s Most Wanted<\/strong>. He helped shape the raw sound of the group in the late 80s and early 90s, and has also produced one of their biggest songs, &#8220;Hood Took Me Under.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>May both of these legends rest in peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ZAYzLjQAd4?si=4Ztao_a6JjhhzYca\" 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3lP0WNsSPsg?si=3E7FxHEdSLr_La_Z\" 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the year is still young, we&#8217;ve unfortunately already lost prominent figures in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":223139,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Untitled.avif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-W30","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223138","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=223138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}