{"id":99603,"date":"2016-01-04T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=99603"},"modified":"2016-01-04T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:49:20","slug":"dig-of-the-day-mark-b-blade-the-unknown-full-album-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-mark-b-blade-the-unknown-full-album-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Mark B &#038; Blade &#8211; The Unknown (Full Album &#8211; 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HHimg-gCVN8?list=PL05D77C585244C2A2\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <em><strong>Dig Of The Day<\/strong><\/em> is in honor of our fallen soldier, <strong>Mark B<\/strong>, who passed away in his sleep on January 1st, 2016. <\/p>\n<p>One half of the very well known duo <strong>Mark B &#038; Blade<\/strong> (a rare success story to emerge from the post-2000 UK Hip Hop scene), he produced &#038; helped define the sound over 24 years+ &#038; inspiring a whole generation of new genre artists and fans in the process with legendary releases like <em>Ya Don&#8217;t See The Signs<\/em> &#038; <em>The Unknown<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Had it not been for <strong>Mark B<\/strong>&#8216;s efforts to crank up his often downbeat productions into something much more &#8216;in yer face&#8217; <em>The Unknown<\/em> would never had been made. After the success of the single <em>The Unknown<\/em>, a finely honed acoustic jam, <strong>Wordplay Records<\/strong> have added some new material including a guitar riff slamming remix of <em>Ya Don&#8217;t See The Signs<\/em> courtesy of <strong>Feeder&#8217;s Grant Nicholas<\/strong> and re-released the album on to a newly primed audience. <\/p>\n<p>All tracks produced by <strong>Mark B &#038; Blade<\/strong> \/ scratches by  <strong>Plus One, Primecuts, Mr Thing<\/strong> and <strong>DJ Grasshoppa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>RIP <strong>Mark B<\/strong> (November 6th, 1970 &#8211; January 1st, 2016)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-7.46.55-PM.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"99604\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-mark-b-blade-the-unknown-full-album-2000\/screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-7-46-55-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-7.46.55-PM.png?fit=590%2C171&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"590,171\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Screen shot 2016-01-03 at 7.46.55 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-7.46.55-PM.png?fit=590%2C171&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-7.46.55-PM.png?fit=640%2C157&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screen shot 2016-01-03 at 7.46.55 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-7.46.55-PM.png?resize=540%2C157&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-7.46.55-PM.png?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Dig Of The Day is in honor of our fallen soldier, Mark B, who&#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":"","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today&#039;s Dig Of The Day is in honor of our fallen soldier, Mark B, who passed away in his sleep on January 1st, 2016. 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