{"id":4105,"date":"2014-10-20T22:16:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2018-12-04T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:07:59","slug":"the-life-and-times-of-a-struggling-mc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2014\/10\/20\/the-life-and-times-of-a-struggling-mc\/","title":{"rendered":"The life and times of a struggling MC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4112\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bigstock-microphone-on-stage-with-blue-26918891-520x346.jpg\" alt=\"bigstock-microphone-on-stage-with-blue-26918891-520x346\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bigstock-microphone-on-stage-with-blue-26918891-520x346.jpg 520w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bigstock-microphone-on-stage-with-blue-26918891-520x346-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is a rare occurrence when I get an opportunity to stop and reflect on the path not taken. With that said, I want to thank Tom Seymour and De Loot for inviting me to be interviewed on the <a title=\"New York Cine Video: Hip-hop artist Professor James Richardson speaks with us about his early record deals\" href=\"http:\/\/newyorkcine.podbean.com\/e\/new-york-cine-video-hip-hop-artist-james-richardson-speaks-with-us-about-his-early-record-deals\/\">New York Cine Radio podcast<\/a>. I had blast talking about <a title=\"I spits hot fiyah!!\" href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2009\/02\/05\/i-spits-hot-fiyah\/\">pursuing a career in Hip Hop music<\/a> when <!--more-->I was much younger. We talked about the ups and downs of being a struggling artist in the 90&#8217;s, the <a title=\"Creating and Promoting Hip Hop in the Digital Age\" href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/1703099\/Creating_and_Promoting_Hip_Hop_in_the_Digital_Age\">disruptive effect digital technologies have had on the music industry<\/a>, and what lies ahead for artists in this new tech-centric ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>The audio from the full interview can be heard below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/audio\/postId\/5334789\/url\/http%253A%252F%252Fnewyorkcine.podbean.com%252Fe%252Fnew-york-cine-140-interview-with-musician-james-richardson-plus-discussions-on-walter-mitty-sleeper-and-divergent%252F\/initByJs\/1\/auto\/1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Tom Seymour and De Loot for inviting on the New York Cine Radio. I had blast talking about my time pursuing a career in Hip Hop music! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,6,18,455,111,845,2],"tags":[767,779,780,604,609,782,778,272,605,781],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-hop","category-lifestyle","category-new-media","category-new-york-cine-radio","category-itp","category-audio-video-podcasts","category-technology","tag-hip-hop","tag-hitem-high","tag-hitem-low","tag-ill-flow","tag-mic","tag-microphone","tag-music-production","tag-rap","tag-rewind","tag-the-demon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}