{"id":223749,"date":"2026-02-16T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=223749"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:32:59","slug":"astray-and-elzhi-serve-up-fresh-heat-from-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/astray-and-elzhi-serve-up-fresh-heat-from-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Astray and Elzhi serve up fresh heat from Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xGatc46TBDw?si=5TkambryMxWmGnEi\" 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>Former <em>Shady Records<\/em> signee, <strong>Astray<\/strong>, and former <strong>Slum Village<\/strong> member,<strong> Elzhi<\/strong>, join up for a new joint. They&#8217;ve released &#8220;A Beautiful Mess.&#8221; Despite its name, the track is super clean. They&#8217;ve showed out with smooth flows, and top-notch lyricism. <strong>DJ Los<\/strong> also graced the track with some dope scratches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"223756\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/astray-and-elzhi-serve-up-fresh-heat-from-michigan\/a-beautiful-mess-thumbnail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-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=\"A beautiful mess thumbnail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail-540x304.avif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-223756\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail.avif 1920w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail-768x432.avif 768w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail-1536x864.avif 1536w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-beautiful-mess-thumbnail.avif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Former Shady Records signee, Astray, and former Slum Village member, Elzhi, join up for&#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-223749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-WcR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223749","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=223749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}