{"id":99012,"date":"2015-12-20T18:55:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=99012"},"modified":"2015-12-20T18:55:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T17:55:36","slug":"video-dig-of-the-day-krs-one-live-at-the-uptown-comedy-club-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-krs-one-live-at-the-uptown-comedy-club-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Dig Of The Day: KRS-One Live At The Uptown Comedy Club (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MLtaKcQSNFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we have a brilliant and rare <strong>KRS-One<\/strong> performance from the <strong>Uptown Comedy Club<\/strong> in two parts. Above is the first part, while the longer second part is over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQmK3iVmp6A\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He drops classics like <em>The Bridge Is Over<\/em>, <em>South Bronx<\/em>, with one of the best segue&#8217;s I heard as the next track <em>Criminal Minded<\/em> starts playin&#8217;, after which he did a classic known as <em>Sound Of Da Police<\/em>, with probably a demo version of the beat since its&#8217; a bit different than the album version, followed by the super hard <em>Outta Here<\/em> in which he drops a chorus along with the crowd and some final words for the night.<\/p>\n<p>In 1989, Andre and Kevin Brown started a movement right in the heart of Harlem: the <strong>Uptown Comedy Club<\/strong>. From a hole in the wall to the place to be, the <strong>Uptown Comedy Club<\/strong> solidified its place in history as the premier showcase for up and coming black comedic talent in the 80s and 90s. <\/p>\n<p>Shoutout to my man <strong>Phat Phillie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/krs1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"99013\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-dig-of-the-day-krs-one-live-at-the-uptown-comedy-club-1993\/krs-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/krs1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" 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=\"krs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/krs1.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/krs1.jpg?fit=640%2C304&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"krs\" width=\"640\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/krs1.jpg?resize=540%2C304&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/krs1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/krs1.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/krs1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have a brilliant and rare KRS-One performance from the Uptown Comedy Club in&#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-99012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-pKY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99012","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=99012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}