{"id":57547,"date":"2012-11-11T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T22:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=57547"},"modified":"2012-11-11T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T22:24:17","slug":"r-i-p-major-harris-of-the-delfonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/r-i-p-major-harris-of-the-delfonics\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Major Harris of The Delfonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQAFluMiwIo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>R&amp;B singer Major Harris passed away Friday at his home in Richmond, VA from congestive heart and lung failure. He was 65. As a solo artist, Major Harris is well known for his hit <em>Love Won\u2019t Let Me Wait<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Delfonics were frequently sampled in Hip Hop including artists such as Ghostface Killah and The Fugees. His last performance was in 2011 when he reunited with the group.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/rapradar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RR<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R&amp;B singer Major Harris passed away Friday at his home in Richmond, VA from congestive&#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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-eYb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57547","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=57547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}