{"id":7423,"date":"2010-03-01T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2010-03-01T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:01:06","slug":"the-legendary-power-play-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-legendary-power-play-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legendary Power Play Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"playerArte\" 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=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/arte.vo.llnwd.net\/o21\/videoweb\/flash\/ny-minute\/player.swf?videoId=395&amp;admin=false&amp;mode=prod&amp;embed=true\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"playerArte\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This one takes place where Rakim recorded the whole Paid in Full LP, where Nas did the first of It Ain\u2019t Hard to Tell\u2019s many versions\u2026 Fat Joe, LL Cool J, Mobb Deep, Run-DMC, BDP, Biggie, and Jay-Z also laid classic verses here.<br \/>\nThis studio was called Power Play until it was sold in 98. In Ya Ear is the new moniker, Joell Ortiz, Cory Gunz and Cormega are some of the regular customers\u2026 Rob and Ax, the new bosses, shares thoughts on the vast legacy of this joint.<br \/>\nGreatest moments include the (long) making of The Big Picture, Big L\u2019s posthumous album, by his friend and mentor Lord Finesse.<br \/>\nBaddest moments ? Power Play was sold for a reason : the old owner was fed up with rappers and labels not paying their studio time. That\u2019s why he kept each and every reel until somebody paid the bills. That\u2019s why Rob and Ax ended up with dozens of masters from Finesse, EPMD, Rakim, etc.<br \/>\nI\u2019m sure you\u2019ve started guessing : the treasure was sitting here, and\u2026 something bad happened. In a New York Minute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gasface.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Minute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one takes place where Rakim recorded the whole Paid in Full LP, where Nas&#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-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-1VJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","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=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}