{"id":97759,"date":"2015-11-27T22:47:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T21:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=97759"},"modified":"2015-11-30T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:03:29","slug":"pearl-gates-diamond-mind-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/pearl-gates-diamond-mind-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Gates &#8211; Diamond Mind EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"97883\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/pearl-gates-diamond-mind-ep\/pearl-gates-diamond-mind-800p\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pearl-Gates-Diamond-Mind-800p.jpg?fit=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" 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=\"Pearl Gates &amp;#8211; Diamond Mind EP\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pearl-Gates-Diamond-Mind-800p.jpg?fit=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pearl-Gates-Diamond-Mind-800p.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pearl-Gates-Diamond-Mind-800p.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pearl Gates - Diamond Mind EP\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-97883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pearl-Gates-Diamond-Mind-800p.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pearl-Gates-Diamond-Mind-800p.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pearl-Gates-Diamond-Mind-800p.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a setting dominated by crime, mis-education and economic hardship, <strong>Pearl Gates<\/strong>&#8216;s third eye deflects darkness and spotlights the powers of thought on his debut EP <em>Diamond Mind<\/em>. While finessing East Coast rap over edgy boom bap production, <strong>Gates<\/strong> invites the listener in to the process of excavating raw gems from even the rockiest surroundings. <\/p>\n<p><em>Diamond Mind<\/em> features production from <strong>Khrysis<\/strong> of J<strong>ustus League (9th Wonder), Kic Beats, iRobot Scott<\/strong> (for <strong>Matrax Productions<\/strong>), <strong>Sirplus, Jay Notez<\/strong> and <strong>M. Stacks<\/strong>. Artists featured include <strong>Masta Ace, Wordsworth, Boldy James, Stricklin<\/strong> and more. The EP is now available (November 27th) as a digital and CD release on <strong>Below System Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Digital:<a href=\"http:\/\/apple.co\/1MUzBbW\"> iTunes<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1SXLgfi\"> Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CD: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kEe6WN\">Below System Records<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1HWoWkV\">ughh.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/169555850&amp;color=000000&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a setting dominated by crime, mis-education and economic hardship, Pearl Gates&#8216;s third eye deflects&#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-97759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-pqL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97759","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=97759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}