{"id":95727,"date":"2015-10-18T20:18:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=95727"},"modified":"2015-10-18T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T18:20:20","slug":"dig-of-the-day-illegal-head-or-gut-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-illegal-head-or-gut-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Illegal &#8211; Head Or Gut (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FHASHQVGqhw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erick Sermon<\/strong>, <strong>Jamal<\/strong> and <strong>Malik<\/strong> in full effect. <\/p>\n<p>I suggest you turn up your volume before playin&#8217; this.<\/p>\n<p>Back with some more <strong>Illegal<\/strong> with a phat track called <em>Head Or Gut<\/em>. <strong>Illegal<\/strong> was a short-lived hip hop duo composed of <strong>Jamal Phillips<\/strong> (Philadelphia) and <strong>Malik Edwards<\/strong> (Holly Hill, South Carolina) that was signed to <strong>Rowdy Records<\/strong>. The duo was known to be affiliated with the hip-hop collective <strong>Hit Squad<\/strong>. The track is from their debut and only album <em>The Untold Truth<\/em>, released in 1993 on <strong>Rowdy Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamal<\/strong> would later release his debut solo album, <em>Last Chance, No Breaks<\/em> in 1995 on <strong>Rowdy Records<\/strong>. <strong>Malik<\/strong> released one single for <strong>Rowdy Records<\/strong> titled <em>Malik Goes On,<\/em> but his debut album was shelved. <strong>Malik<\/strong> worked with <strong>Monica<\/strong> on <em>Miss Thang<\/em> and later with his cousin <strong>Snoop Dogg<\/strong> on <em>Doggystyle<\/em> and <strong>Warren G<\/strong> on <em>Regulate<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Erick Sermon<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/illegal.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"95729\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-illegal-head-or-gut-1993\/illegal\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/illegal.jpg?fit=600%2C339&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,339\" 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=\"illegal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/illegal.jpg?fit=540%2C305&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/illegal.jpg?fit=600%2C339&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/illegal.jpg?fit=640%2C305&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"illegal\" width=\"640\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/illegal.jpg?resize=540%2C305&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/illegal.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Sermon, Jamal and Malik in full effect. I suggest you turn up your volume&#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-95727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-oTZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95727","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=95727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}