{"id":133,"date":"2005-08-18T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/08\/18\/putting-politics-back-into-us-hip-hop\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T21:02:00","slug":"putting-politics-back-into-us-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/08\/putting-politics-back-into-us-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting politics back into US hip hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/F7BB1F5C-5A19-42C8-8616-AEC0ABDB22B8.htm\">Putting politics back into US hip hop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From english.aljazeera.net, a story about Fredwreck, a US born hip hop producer whose family is from Palestine. He has an upcoming album and new song, &#8220;Dear Mr. President,&#8221; which is directed at George W. Bush and is a reaction to events in Iraq and attempts to ask questions that he thinks are not being addressed in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>It is a protest song that brings together the talents of the big-name rappers Fredwreck works with, including Cypress Hill&#8217;s B-Real, Evidence from Dilated Peoples and KRS-One.<\/p>\n<p>Listen or download from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredwreck.com\/\">Fredwreck.com<a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting politics back into US hip hop From english.aljazeera.net, a story about Fredwreck, a US born hip hop producer whose family is from Palestine. He has an upcoming album and new song, &#8220;Dear Mr. President,&#8221; which is directed at George W. Bush and is a reaction to events in Iraq and attempts to ask questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}