{"id":202,"date":"2004-10-15T01:58:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T01:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:05:31","slug":"streets_a_grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/streets_a_grand\/","title":{"rendered":"Streets: A Grand Don&#8217;t Come For Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I relate well to white rappers. I really liked the debut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-streets.co.uk\/\">Streets<\/a> (Mike Skinner) release and at first I was a little uncomfortable with his latest release, <em>A Grand Don&#8217;t Come For Free<\/em>. It sounded, well, like a draft work for a final product, less pumped and fat (well, except maybe &#8220;Twat&#8221; and &#8220;Fit&#8221;), more stilted, slow, burnt. But it&#8217;s simple 11-track narrative concept&#8211;about a guy who losses his savings, accuses his roommates of taking it, starts spiralling out of control&#8211;is actually compelling. The music is always simple, but that down-tempo thundering brass loop on the opening track just sucks me in and I always stay around till the end. Part of it is just digging and deciphering the slang. And where I go from loving MC Paul Barman&#8217;s rapid fire alliteration, Skinner&#8217;s slow-paced Brit slang is so evenly spaced, I enjoy ticking along with it. It feels like an honest album, ambitious even, having a concept hip hop album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I relate well to white rappers. I really liked the debut Streets (Mike Skinner) release and at first I was a little uncomfortable with his latest release, A Grand Don&#8217;t Come For Free. It sounded, well, like a draft work for a final product, less pumped and fat (well, except maybe &#8220;Twat&#8221; and &#8220;Fit&#8221;), more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}