{"id":76323,"date":"2014-03-20T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=76323"},"modified":"2014-03-20T11:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:25:35","slug":"interview-king-t-west-coast-boom-bap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-king-t-west-coast-boom-bap\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: King T &#8211; West Coast Boom Bap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"76324\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-king-t-west-coast-boom-bap\/1122kingt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1122KingT.jpg?fit=565%2C455&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"565,455\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&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;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"king t\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1122KingT.jpg?fit=565%2C455&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1122KingT.jpg?fit=640%2C434&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"king t\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-76324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1122KingT.jpg?resize=540%2C434&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1122KingT.jpg?w=565&amp;ssl=1 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King T is a legend. In 1988, Tipsy (as he\u2019s also known) was joining MC Hammer and Too Short as one of the few West Coast acts signed to known labels like Capitol and Jive. During a career spanning four decades, Tila (as his friends refer to him) has released as many major label albums, Act A Fool, At Your Own Risk, Tha Triflin\u2019 Album, and IV Life, introduced the world to Tha Alkaholiks and his Likwit Crew, unleashed one of the rawest emcees we\u2019ve ever known in Xzibit, and has appeared on several classic songs with a who\u2019s who of West Coast royalty by collaborating with Dr. Dre, Xzibit, MC Ren, DJ Muggs, Spice 1, Ice Cube, DJ Pooh, and Masta Ace, to name a few.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyhood.com\/king-t-west-coast-boom-bap-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyhood.com\" target=\"_blank\">crazyhood.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King T is a legend. In 1988, Tipsy (as he\u2019s also known) was joining MC&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-jR1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76323","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=76323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}