{"id":2580,"date":"2011-07-26T22:26:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2011-07-26T22:26:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:26:16","slug":"rocky-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/rocky-business\/","title":{"rendered":"ROCKY BUSINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2581\" title=\"Rocky-Business-A-Rebels-Roar-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Rocky-Business-A-Rebels-Roar-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Rocky-Business-A-Rebels-Roar-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Rocky-Business-A-Rebels-Roar-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>R<\/strong><strong>OCKY BUSINESS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>A Rebel\u2019s Roar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>wearerockybusiness.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeeling like Biggie when he laid \u2018Juicy,\u2019\u201d rapper Strictly Business announces on his duo\u2019s debut EP, making a comparison that\u2019s not quite right. SB, as he\u2019s known, is a motormouth MC from the Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s old Brooklyn \u2019hood, but that\u2019s where the similarities end. On \u201cJuicy,\u201d Biggie sipped champagne and celebrated his rise from gutter to penthouse. Contrast that with \u201cFind Away,\u201d on which a down-and-out SB slams vodka shots, searching for sweet oblivion amid DJ Johnny on the Rocks\u2019 left-field punk-ska accompaniment. On \u201cGlide,\u201d SB repeats, \u201cOut of my head, out of my mind,\u201d showing the kind of vulnerability and insecurity most rappers hide. It\u2019s not \u201cJuicy,\u201d but it\u2019s still pretty sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKY BUSINESS A Rebel\u2019s Roar wearerockybusiness.com \u201cFeeling like Biggie when he laid \u2018Juicy,\u2019\u201d rapper Strictly Business announces on his duo\u2019s debut EP, making a comparison that\u2019s not quite right. SB, as he\u2019s known, is a motormouth MC from the Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s old Brooklyn \u2019hood, but that\u2019s where the similarities end. On \u201cJuicy,\u201d Biggie sipped champagne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[2038,196,10159,1634,2036,2037],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}