{"id":7117,"date":"2010-02-23T00:39:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2024-10-24T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:04:58","slug":"the-making-of-jay-zs-hard-knock-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-making-of-jay-zs-hard-knock-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making of Jay-Z\u2019s \u201cHard Knock Life\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xgC6uS_AA0A&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The story that\u2019s often told about the beat is that Jay overheard Kid Capri play it and immediately wanted it for his album. But here, Jay-Z sits down with SVT (Swedish television) to tell the story of the song\u2019s producer, The 45 King, who also has DJ Kool\u2019s <em>Let Me Clear My Throat<\/em> and Eminem\u2019s <em>Stan<\/em> to his credit. Kid Capri makes a cameo too. It\u2019s from a documentary that chronicles hit songs, this segment focusing on Jay-Z\u2019s <em>Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)<\/em>. Watch the full thing <a href=\"http:\/\/svtplay.se\/v\/1867970\/hitlatens_historia\/del_2_av_6__hard_knock_life__ghetto_anthem__-_jay-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/rapradar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RR<\/a> &amp; NR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story that\u2019s often told about the beat is that Jay overheard Kid Capri play&#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-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-1QN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","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=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}