{"id":23798,"date":"2011-01-10T21:36:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=23798"},"modified":"2011-01-10T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T20:36:59","slug":"bobby-robinson-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/bobby-robinson-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Robinson R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23800\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/bobby-robinson-r-i-p\/jul-26-0005\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bobby_robinson.jpg?fit=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Roberts, Matthew,,freelance&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Musician, personality and business owner Bobby Robinson (91) has owned Happy House Records for more than 60 years. He says he was the first black owner of a shop on 125th Street (1942). Now he and his daughter Denise (who helps run the shop) will have to find another location; the building has been sold and they&#039;ve bee given 30 days to leave.   Original Filename: IMG_8038.JPG&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;*Jul 26 - 00:05*&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"*Jul 26 &amp;#8211; 00:05*\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Musician, personality and business owner Bobby Robinson (91) has owned Happy House Records for more than 60 years. He says he was the first black owner of a shop on 125th Street (1942). Now he and his daughter Denise (who helps run the shop) will have to find another location; the building has been sold and they&amp;#8217;ve bee given 30 days to leave.   Original Filename: IMG_8038.JPG&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bobby_robinson.jpg?fit=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bobby_robinson.jpg?fit=540%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23800\" title=\"*Jul 26 - 00:05*\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bobby_robinson.jpg?fit=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re sorry to report that Bobby Robinson, whose tiny record shop on Harlem&#8217;s 125th St. spawned No. 1 hits in USA, died on January 7th, 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bobby Robinson, the founder of one of the first rap labels, Enjoy Records, and the first record man to sign a bonafide hip-hop act from the streets of the Bronx \u2014 Grandmaster Flash &amp; the Furious Five  \u2014 died Saturday at the age of 93.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about the man at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancharnas.com\/2011\/01\/bobby-robinson-1918-2011-an-unreleased-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">dancharnas.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re sorry to report that Bobby Robinson, whose tiny record shop on Harlem&#8217;s 125th St&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-23798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-6bQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}