{"id":64,"date":"2008-08-29T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/8beats\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-11-04T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T12:36:29","slug":"5-big-boi-somethings-gotta-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/5-big-boi-somethings-gotta-give\/","title":{"rendered":"5. Big Boi ft. Mary J Blige: &#8220;Something&#8217;s Gotta Give&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a fantastic convention &#8211; Obama and everyone supporting him (including Hillary, begrudingly) set an inspirational foundation for Democratic victory in November.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of inspiration, here is the song that inspired me to start collecting Obama hip-hop tracks. A heartfelt plea to change the economically stagnant conditions of the poor in America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/8beats\/files\/2008\/08\/big-boi-ft-mary-j-blige-somethings-gotta-give.mp3\">big-boi-ft-mary-j-blige-somethings-gotta-give<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lyrical sample: &#8220;And the only hope I have that help me deal with the drama, is that maybe in November I&#8217;ll be cheering for Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a fantastic convention &#8211; Obama and everyone supporting him (including Hillary, begrudingly) set an inspirational foundation for Democratic victory in November. Speaking of inspiration, here is the song that inspired me to start collecting Obama hip-hop tracks. A heartfelt plea to change the economically stagnant conditions of the poor in America. big-boi-ft-mary-j-blige-somethings-gotta-give Lyrical sample: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beats","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/8beats\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}