{"id":97998,"date":"2015-12-02T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=97998"},"modified":"2015-12-01T22:27:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:27:21","slug":"video-krs-one-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-krs-one-on-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: KRS-One on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long before the world would ever hear about Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice and years before the #BlackLivesMatter movement would make its way into mainstream politics, hip hop legend KRS-One was releasing tracks like the bombastic 1993 track “Sound of Da Police,” slamming police brutality and systematic oppression.<\/p>\n

And during an election cycle where criminal justice reform and police brutality have been brought to the forefront, KRS said “the whole thing is a joke” because none of the candidates are truly talking about what he considers to be the “number one issue” impacting the African American community: “This oxymoron called police brutality.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peep the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long before the world would ever hear about Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice and years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-puC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97998","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}