{"id":227296,"date":"2026-05-16T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=227296"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:54:45","slug":"k-rec-checkmate-drop-first-single-from-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/k-rec-checkmate-drop-first-single-from-upcoming-album\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Rec &#038; Checkmate drop first single from upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"227297\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/k-rec-checkmate-drop-first-single-from-upcoming-album\/good-nutrition-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/good-nutrition-cover.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,700\" 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=\"good nutrition cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/good-nutrition-cover.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/good-nutrition-cover.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trusted DJ\/producer <strong>K-Rec<\/strong> connected with a veteran underground emcee<strong> Checkmate<\/strong> for a collaborative album, titled &#8220;The Method.&#8221; The first single from the project is &#8220;Good Nutrition,&#8221; featuring none other than <strong>Sadat X<\/strong> of <strong>Brand Nubian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the track via<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/djkrec.bandcamp.com\/album\/k-rec-and-checkmate-good-nutrition-feat-sadat-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Trusted DJ\/producer K-Rec connected with a veteran underground emcee Checkmate for a collaborative album,&#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":"","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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-X84","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227296","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=227296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227298,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227296\/revisions\/227298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}