{"id":97548,"date":"2015-11-24T22:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=97548"},"modified":"2015-11-24T22:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:11:35","slug":"dig-of-the-day-big-shug-do-what-pays-ya-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-big-shug-do-what-pays-ya-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Big Shug &#8211; Do What Pays Ya (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arGDnwaKzsk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Damn I haven&#8217;t heard this in a while, a track from a member of the <strong>Gang Starr Foundation<\/strong> collective, <strong>Big Shug<\/strong>. Boston emcee&#8217;s <em>Do What Pays Ya<\/em> is real talk all the way without too much philosophy, just straight up. <em>Do What Pays Ya<\/em> is originally from <strong>Guru Presents<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Illkid Records<\/em> &#8217;95 compilation album, released on <strong>Payday<\/strong> and later on it appeared on <strong>Big Shug<\/strong>&#8216;s 2nd album <em>Never Say Die<\/em> from 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Carlos Bess<\/strong>, a prominent figure in the Hip-Hop culture, who served as the chief engineer and occasional drummer for <strong>Wu-Tang Clan<\/strong>. He gained attention for his work on the much sampled <em>Funky Drummer<\/em> breakbeat compilations. <\/p>\n<p>Contains samples of <em>Modaji<\/em> by <strong>Dave Grusin<\/strong> (1977) and <em>F.A.L.A.<\/em> by <strong>Gang Starr<\/strong> ft. <strong>Big Shug<\/strong> (1994).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/illkid.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"97549\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-big-shug-do-what-pays-ya-1995\/illkid\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/illkid.jpg?fit=600%2C590&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,590\" 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=\"illkid\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/illkid.jpg?fit=540%2C531&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/illkid.jpg?fit=600%2C590&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/illkid.jpg?fit=640%2C531&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"illkid\" width=\"640\" height=\"531\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/illkid.jpg?resize=540%2C531&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/illkid.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn I haven&#8217;t heard this in a while, a track from a member of the&#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-97548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-pnm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97548","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=97548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}