{"id":64527,"date":"2013-04-16T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=64527"},"modified":"2013-04-16T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:41:52","slug":"special-ed-stars-in-the-new-magnum-opus-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/special-ed-stars-in-the-new-magnum-opus-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Ed Stars in the new &#8220;Magnum Opus&#8221; series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script height=\"344px\" width=\"540px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=NnZHB5YTopyQAhHnJ4ugDsS4ObsDmqU3&#038;pbid=556f8260656c47a4ab49bf6f2dde85f3\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Special Ed was just a 16-year-old high school student living in Brooklyn, he connected with \u201cHitman\u201d Howie Tee and recorded a bombastically boastful song called \u201cI Got It Made.\u201d The song became the hit single off his debut album for Profile Records, Youngest In Charge, which sold more than a million copies, making the teenager\u2019s bold words seem like prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>For the first edition of our new series \u201cMagnum Opus,\u201d Complex TV digs deep into the story behind the making of this hip-hop classic, speaking with fellow rappers like Dres from Black Sheep, Jarobi from A Tribe Called Quest, and Jeru The Damaja, as well as producers Pete Rock, The Twilite Tone, Rashad Smith, music executive D. Prosper, and of course Edward Archer himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\" target=\"_blank\">Complex<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Special Ed was just a 16-year-old high school student living in Brooklyn, he connected&#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-64527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-gML","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64527","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=64527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}