{"id":223699,"date":"2026-02-15T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=223699"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:13:50","slug":"dj-scratch-brings-new-flavor-to-epmds-test-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dj-scratch-brings-new-flavor-to-epmds-test-me\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Scratch brings new flavor to EPMD&#8217;s &#8220;Test Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ev4lB1XcHKo?si=5s8jlEcX1zvNLz18\" 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>Brooklyn veteran <strong>DJ Scratch<\/strong> brought us a fly new twist on<strong> EPMD&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;Test Me&#8221;. He blessed the track with Crooklyn smoothness, underlying the vocals with a clean trumpet beat, and putting down dope scratches for the chorus. &#8220;Test Me&#8221; originally appeared on last year&#8217;s, long-expected <strong>Erick Sermon<\/strong> album, <a href=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/erick-sermon-dynamic-duos-vol-1-album-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Dynamic Duos Vol. 1&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"223700\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dj-scratch-brings-new-flavor-to-epmds-test-me\/test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" 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=\"Test me dj scratch remix thumbnail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-223700\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail.avif 1920w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail-768x432.avif 768w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail-1536x864.avif 1536w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Test-me-dj-scratch-remix-thumbnail.avif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Brooklyn veteran DJ Scratch brought us a fly new twist on EPMD&#8217;s &#8220;Test Me&#8221;&#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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Wc3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223699","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=223699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}