{"id":98141,"date":"2015-12-04T16:54:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=98141"},"modified":"2015-12-04T16:54:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:54:45","slug":"darlene-ortiz-talks-her-years-with-ice-t-and-what-her-family-thought-of-the-power-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/darlene-ortiz-talks-her-years-with-ice-t-and-what-her-family-thought-of-the-power-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Darlene Ortiz Talks Her Years With Ice-T and What Her Family Thought of the Power Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"98142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/darlene-ortiz-talks-her-years-with-ice-t-and-what-her-family-thought-of-the-power-cover\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2.jpg?fit=1100%2C735&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1100,735\" 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=\"darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2.jpg?fit=540%2C361&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2.jpg?fit=640%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2.jpg?resize=540%2C361&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-solo_c8asc2.jpg?w=1100&amp;ssl=1 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The woman who changed rap album art shares that story and more in her new book, <em>Definition of Down<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>Darlene Ortiz<\/strong> is hip-hop royalty. As <strong>Ice-T<\/strong>\u2019s muse, she sent shockwaves through popular culture and helped to push the boundaries of rap album art when she appeared bikini clad and holding a shotgun on the cover of <strong>Ice<\/strong>\u2019s sophomore effort, <em>Power<\/em>, in 1988. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Ice<\/strong> and <strong>Ortiz<\/strong> made up one of hip-hop\u2019s first power couples, and she always stood by his side as he tried to make a name for himself. Read the rest of the article via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2015\/12\/darlene-ortiz-definition-of-down-interview?utm_campaign=complexmag&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social\">complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman who changed rap album art shares that story and more in her new&#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":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-pwV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98141","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=98141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}