{"id":93242,"date":"2015-08-18T21:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=93242"},"modified":"2015-08-18T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:39:05","slug":"pen-pals-pen-pals-lp-album-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/pen-pals-pen-pals-lp-album-stream\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen Pals &#8211; Pen Pals LP (Album Stream)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pen-pals.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"93243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/pen-pals-pen-pals-lp-album-stream\/pen-pals\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pen-pals.jpg?fit=700%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,700\" 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=\"pen pals\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pen-pals.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pen-pals.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"pen pals\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-93243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pen-pals.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pen-pals.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/pen-pals.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chopped Herring<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Brooklyn, <strong>Squires<\/strong> [Beat maker], <strong>The Cynic<\/strong> [MC] &#038; <strong>Rapswell <\/strong> [MC] are&#8230;<strong>Pen Pals<\/strong>. Dudes hit us up to check their music and honestly yo, we were COMPLETELY blown away. <\/p>\n<p>Was this a classic super group using a pseudonym? <strong>Q-Tip, Ad-Rock, Edan, Slick Rick, Doppelgangaz<\/strong> with <strong>Prince Paul<\/strong> and [lost] <strong>Paul C<\/strong> production? It made no sense &#8211; how could a first release be SO well put together? There was\/is something suspicious about it!! They hit us up with 2 tracks [of the 10 here] and we cut a deal there and then &#8211; didn&#8217;t need to hear any more. <\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1604575139\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/pen-pals.bandcamp.com\/album\/squires-the-cynic-rapswell-are-pen-pals\">Squires, The Cynic, &amp; Rapswell are&#8230;PEN PALS by Pen Pals<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chopped Herring: Hailing from Brooklyn, Squires [Beat maker], The Cynic [MC] &#038; Rapswell [MC] are&#8230;Pen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-ofU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93242","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}