{"id":99231,"date":"2015-12-26T19:10:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T18:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=99231"},"modified":"2015-12-26T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T14:11:40","slug":"dig-of-the-day-kurtis-blow-christmas-rappin-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-kurtis-blow-christmas-rappin-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Kurtis Blow &#8211; Christmas Rappin&#8217; (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9xUFnGWWtoQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We got the flava right here!<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant funky soul production and <strong>Kurtis Blow<\/strong>, what more do you need? Today we got an oldschool Xmas track titled <em>Christmas Rappin&#8217;<\/em>, released on <strong>Mercury<\/strong> in 1979, which was <strong>Kurtis<\/strong>&#8216; 2nd single ever released, which, along with <em>The Breaks<\/em>, granted him a major record deal for his 1980 debut  <em>Kurtis Blow<\/em> album. The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>J.B. Moore<\/strong> &#038; <strong>Robert Ford Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kblow.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"99232\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-kurtis-blow-christmas-rappin-1979\/kblow\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kblow.jpg?fit=603%2C569&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"603,569\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Kraig Jones&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=\"kblow\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kblow.jpg?fit=603%2C569&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kblow.jpg?fit=640%2C510&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"kblow\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kblow.jpg?resize=540%2C510&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kblow.jpg?w=603&amp;ssl=1 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got the flava right here! Brilliant funky soul production and Kurtis Blow, what more&#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-99231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-pOv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99231","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=99231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}