{"id":37873,"date":"2011-08-08T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=37873"},"modified":"2011-08-08T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:00:00","slug":"mars-blackmon-celebrates-25th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/mars-blackmon-celebrates-25th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Blackmon celebrates 25th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37875\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/mars-blackmon-celebrates-25th-birthday\/jordan-mars-blackmon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jordan-mars-blackmon.jpg?fit=600%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,436\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"jordan-mars-blackmon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jordan-mars-blackmon.jpg?fit=540%2C392&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jordan-mars-blackmon.jpg?fit=600%2C436&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jordan-mars-blackmon.jpg?fit=640%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"jordan-mars-blackmon\" width=\"640\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-37875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jordan-mars-blackmon.jpg?resize=540%2C392&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jordan-mars-blackmon.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On this day, 25 years ago, Spike Lee&#8217;s movie <em>She&#8217;s Gotta Have It<\/em> was debuted. In it, Spike introduced legendary character who goes by the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=koRKdhiF1Tw\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Blackmon<\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t long enough before Nike took Mars to star in Jordan commercials and the rest is history. Check the article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/views\/spike-lees-shes-gotta-have-it-turns-25\" target=\"_blank\"><em>She&#8217;s Gotta Have It<\/em><\/a> and hit the jump to check various video ads with Mars and his main man Michael Jordan.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q2ZuyW0ZFpA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6j_TACFfHd4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RbVDkc7rWis\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7sZz-4ABI2s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1C0J8HDLETA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A2ZGgbTdAv4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R6d6Qha5yp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_5EQd34WHM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5PqMUPgW3o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G8HMlN3dtF8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hRS8QoI29wc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, 25 years ago, Spike Lee&#8217;s movie She&#8217;s Gotta Have It was debuted&#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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-9QR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37873","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=37873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}