{"id":56307,"date":"2012-10-08T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=56307"},"modified":"2012-10-07T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:33:50","slug":"interview-jay-z-tim-westwood-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-jay-z-tim-westwood-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Jay-Z &#038; Tim Westwood (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"56308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-jay-z-tim-westwood-1996\/jay_dame_biggs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/jay_dame_biggs.jpg?fit=540%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,338\" 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=\"jay_dame_biggs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/jay_dame_biggs.jpg?fit=540%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56308\" title=\"jay_dame_biggs\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/jay_dame_biggs.jpg?fit=640%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An excited Jay-Z chops it up with Westwood, shortly before the release of Reasonable Doubt. A lotta memories on this one \u2013 remember when Hov was talking about \u2018this is gonna be my only album\u2019? During this interview it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s enjoying the initial success of \u2018Ain\u2019t No Nigga\u2019 as it began tearing up the clubs, and he\u2019s brimming with confidence when discussing his soon-to-be classic debut. He also speaks about his early days rolling with The Jaz, and introduces a little label by the name of Rocafella Records before he drops a couple of verses over Funkmaster Flex rocking doubles of Sadat X\u2018s \u2018Stages and Lights\u2019 beat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F62496136&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;color=000000\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Props to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unkut.com\" target=\"_blank\">Unkut<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excited Jay-Z chops it up with Westwood, shortly before the release of Reasonable Doubt&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-eEb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56307","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}