{"id":224590,"date":"2026-03-10T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=224590"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:33:37","slug":"a-f-r-o-brings-out-another-j-dilla-produced-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/a-f-r-o-brings-out-another-j-dilla-produced-joint\/","title":{"rendered":"A-F-R-O brings out another J Dilla-produced joint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fR6irOcc1p8?si=9oOMoWJWhp0tfNAK\" 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>California emcee and the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of <strong>R.A. The Rugged Man<\/strong>, <strong>A-F-R-O<\/strong> is back with a fresh new joint. What makes this one extra special is the fact that it was produced by the legendary <strong>J Dilla<\/strong> (R.I.P.). &#8220;Blue Steel&#8221; is the second single from his upcoming EP, &#8220;Afrodilla.&#8221; All proceeds from the project will support the J Dilla \/ James Dewitt Yancey Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"224591\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/a-f-r-o-brings-out-another-j-dilla-produced-joint\/afro-blue-steel-thumbnail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-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=\"AFRO &amp;#8211; Blue Steel thumbnail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail-540x304.avif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224591\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail.avif 1920w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail-768x432.avif 768w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail-1536x864.avif 1536w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFRO-Blue-Steel-thumbnail.avif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff California emcee and the prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of R.A. The Rugged Man, A-F-R-O is back with&#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-224590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Wqq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224590","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=224590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224592,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224590\/revisions\/224592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}