{"id":64320,"date":"2013-04-11T20:08:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=64320"},"modified":"2013-04-11T20:37:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:37:32","slug":"jay-z-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/jay-z-open-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z &#8211; Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"64321\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/jay-z-open-letter\/beyonce-knowles-jay-z\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BeyonceJayZCuba.jpg?fit=660%2C371&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"660,371\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Ramon Espinosa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;April 4, 2013: Singer Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, are surrounded by body guards as they tour Old Havana, Cuba.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365074801&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;AP&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;Beyonce Knowles,  Jay-Z&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beyonce Knowles,  Jay-Z\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BeyonceJayZCuba.jpg?fit=540%2C303&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BeyonceJayZCuba.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64321\" alt=\"Beyonce Knowles,  Jay-Z\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BeyonceJayZCuba.jpg?fit=640%2C303&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BeyonceJayZCuba.jpg?resize=540%2C303&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BeyonceJayZCuba.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fresh out the lab, Hov reacts to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2013\/apr\/09\/beyonce-jay-z-cuba-us-treasury\" target=\"_blank\">controversy<\/a> surrounding his recent trip to Cuba on his brand new recording. Produced by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F87385010&amp;color=000000&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeandtimes.com\/jay-z-open-letter\" target=\"_blank\">Life+Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Event The White House is talking about it. Hit continue reading to watch the clip (hilarious BTW).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkAA7F4rsLc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh out the lab, Hov reacts to the controversy surrounding his recent trip to Cuba&#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-64320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-gJq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320","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=64320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}