{"id":2687,"date":"2011-07-27T00:23:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2011-07-27T00:23:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:23:50","slug":"nine-11-thesaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/nine-11-thesaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"NINE 11 THESAURUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2688\" title=\"NINE-11-THESAURUS-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NINE-11-THESAURUS-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NINE-11-THESAURUS-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NINE-11-THESAURUS-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>N<\/strong><strong>INE 11 THESAURUS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Ground Zero Generals<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>myspace.com\/nine11thesaurus<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bluntly provocative, but Nine 11 Thesaurus is a fitting name for this Brooklyn crew\u2014five teenage rappers searching for words to describe the post-9\/11 world. Some group members lost family members in the attacks, but while they do rhyme about wars and world affairs, they focus more on domestic issues like institutional racism (\u201cBondages\u201d), police brutality (\u201cPolice Sirens\u201d) and\u2014this being a hip-hop record\u2014the prowess of the group itself (\u201cRookie of the Year\u201d). Producers Tim Dewit and Matt Mehlan (of experimental indie-rock bands Gang Gang Dance and Skeletons) provide bombed-out backings for the bummed-out lyrics, coloring bleak Wu-Tang soundscapes with splashes of neon synth. All said, it\u2019s a promising debut for perilous times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NINE 11 THESAURUS Ground Zero Generals myspace.com\/nine11thesaurus It\u2019s bluntly provocative, but Nine 11 Thesaurus is a fitting name for this Brooklyn crew\u2014five teenage rappers searching for words to describe the post-9\/11 world. Some group members lost family members in the attacks, but while they do rhyme about wars and world affairs, they focus more on [&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":[196,2133,10159,1636,2134,2132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687"}],"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=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}