{"id":70533,"date":"2013-10-15T23:47:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=70533"},"modified":"2013-10-15T23:47:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:47:05","slug":"video-az-talks-meeting-nas-cameo-in-jay-zs-dead-presidents-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-az-talks-meeting-nas-cameo-in-jay-zs-dead-presidents-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: AZ talks meeting Nas &#038; cameo in Jay Z&#8217;s &#8216;Dead Presidents&#8217; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HLYod0GNk1s\" height=\"344\" width=\"100%\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 10th, 1995 the rap world was blessed with a classic album from Brooklyn, NY&#8217;s legendary lyricist AZ.<\/p>\n<p>Starting his career off by spitting a 16-bar verse of fire on Nas&#8217; &#8220;Life&#8217;s A Bitch&#8221; cut off his epic debut album, Illmatic, AZ was engulfed in a bidding war for his MC services. Landing with EMI Records in 1995, he released his debut album with the club\/radio hit, &#8220;Sugar Hill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With a stint as the co-D to Nas in Dr. Dre&#8217;s super group The Firm, AZ has gone on to make 9 (yes, 9!) solo albums. Check his resume and watch the clip to see if his 10th album, the upcoming Doe or Die 2, will be his last.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIBE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 10th, 1995 the rap world was blessed with a classic album from Brooklyn,&#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":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-ilD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70533","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=70533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}