{"id":81290,"date":"2014-08-02T18:06:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=81290"},"modified":"2014-08-02T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:06:01","slug":"interview-cormega-npr-microphone-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-cormega-npr-microphone-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Cormega @ NPR Microphone Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"540\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/161153914&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>20 years ago, Nas mentioned his friend Cormega on a song called &#8220;One Love,&#8221; which was composed as a letter to someone in prison: &#8220;Night time is more trife than ever \/ What up with Cormega? Did you see him? Are y&#8217;all together? \/ If so then hold the fort down, represent to the fullest \/ Say what&#8217;s up to Herb, Ice and Bullet.&#8221; Those four bars inked Cormega&#8217;s street credibility and forever tied him, for better and worse, to the crown prince of hip-hop. He spoke to Microphone Check cohosts Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley about the career and life he&#8217;s made beyond them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 years ago, Nas mentioned his friend Cormega on a song called &#8220;One Love,&#8221; which&#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":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-download","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-l98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81290","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=81290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}