{"id":98328,"date":"2015-12-07T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=98328"},"modified":"2015-12-07T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:11:53","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-lifers-group-the-real-deal-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-lifers-group-the-real-deal-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day: Lifers Group &#8211; The Real Deal  (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Szv_P8Dkp8g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we have a real deal, real talk, real as it gets, raw material recorded in prison from <strong>Lifers Group<\/strong>, a Hip-Hop group active from &#8217;91 &#8211; &#8217;93, which consisted of prisoners serving time at the Rahway State Prison in New Jersey. The objective of the group was to warn others about the reality of prison life, and the lives that they had lived prior to prison. <\/p>\n<p>The group consisted of nine lead emcees, and several other rappers and musicians. Members of the group served sentences of twenty five years to double life for crimes ranging from robbery to murder.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Real Deal<\/em> is from their <em>#66064<\/em> EP released on <strong>Hollywood BASIC<\/strong> in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Dr. Jam<\/strong> &#038; <strong>Phaze 5<\/strong> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lifers-group.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"98331\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-lifers-group-the-real-deal-1991\/lifers-group\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lifers-group.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" 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=\"lifers group\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lifers-group.jpg?fit=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lifers-group.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lifers group\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lifers-group.jpg?resize=540%2C540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lifers-group.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lifers-group.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have a real deal, real talk, real as it gets, raw material recorded&#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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-pzW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98328","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=98328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}