{"id":63948,"date":"2013-04-08T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=63948"},"modified":"2013-04-04T20:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:48:57","slug":"20-things-people-think-about-rap-that-arent-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/20-things-people-think-about-rap-that-arent-true\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Things People Think About Rap That Aren&#8217;t True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"63949\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/20-things-people-think-about-rap-that-arent-true\/50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1.jpg?fit=620%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,400\" 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=\"50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1.jpg?fit=540%2C348&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1.jpg?fit=620%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-63949\" alt=\"50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1.jpg?fit=640%2C348&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1.jpg?resize=540%2C348&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/50_thingspeople_thinkrap_nottrue1.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hip-hop heads are notorious gossips.<\/p>\n<p>We can front like gossip blogs and reality TV aren&#8217;t the 5th and 6th elements of hip-hop. We can pretend that the hypermasculine theaterics make it different. But the truth is, rumors and urban legends make their way through hip-hop circles as readily as they do celebrity rags at the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>The only real difference is, at least we&#8217;ve got a better soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered whether rappers on Koch really made $7 per album, or thought that DJ Khaled was just a lucky opportunist, you might want to take a look at 20 Things People Think About Rap that Aren&#8217;t True.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2013\/04\/20-things-people-think-about-rap-that-arent-true\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hip-hop heads are notorious gossips. We can front like gossip blogs and reality TV aren&#8217;t&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-gDq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63948","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=63948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}