{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-08T11:25:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-04T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:41:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>The 8BEATs blog<\/strong><\/span> is honored to bring you <span style=\"color: #ffffff\"><strong>the Barack Obama Hip-Hop Project<\/strong><\/span>, an attempt to compile a collection of every hip-hop track that mentions presidential candidate Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Encompassing a range of artists from the genre&#8217;s finest lyricists to artists just breaking into the scene, this sampling highlights a cross-section of the amazing variety of beats hip-hop has to offer. Of the tracks, you&#8217;ll find ones that offer outright endorsements, others that spit out stinging social commentary, and some that are just your crunk party track.<\/p>\n<p>Find the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/8beats\/master-list-of-obama-in-hip-hop\/\">Master List of Obama beats<\/a> here, and email <a href=\"mailto:8beatsblog@gmail.com\">8beatsblog@gmail.com<\/a> with any recommendations, questions, tips, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 8BEATs blog is honored to bring you the Barack Obama Hip-Hop Project, an attempt to compile a collection of every hip-hop track that mentions presidential candidate Barack Obama. Encompassing a range of artists from the genre&#8217;s finest lyricists to artists just breaking into the scene, this sampling highlights a cross-section of the amazing variety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}