{"id":89102,"date":"2015-05-05T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=89102"},"modified":"2015-05-05T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T23:23:08","slug":"interview-yasiin-bey-aka-mos-def-explains-why-he-left-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-yasiin-bey-aka-mos-def-explains-why-he-left-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Yasiin Bey (AKA Mos Def) Explains Why He Left The U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x1YMMolokYo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just being real.&#8221; The legend <strong>Yasiin Bey<\/strong> sat down at #BeatsHQ for an exclusive interview.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yasiin-bey-why-he-left-america-lead.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"89103\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-yasiin-bey-aka-mos-def-explains-why-he-left-the-u-s\/yasiin-bey-why-he-left-america-lead\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yasiin-bey-why-he-left-america-lead.jpg?fit=650%2C410&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,410\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mos def\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yasiin-bey-why-he-left-america-lead.jpg?fit=640%2C404&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yasiin-bey-why-he-left-america-lead.jpg?fit=640%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mos def\" width=\"640\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-89103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yasiin-bey-why-he-left-america-lead.jpg?resize=540%2C341&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/yasiin-bey-why-he-left-america-lead.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just being real.&#8221; The legend Yasiin Bey sat down at #BeatsHQ for an exclusive interview.<\/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":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-nb8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102","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=89102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}