{"id":6660,"date":"2012-06-13T01:57:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2012-06-13T02:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:04:17","slug":"spree-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/spree-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"SPREE WILSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6661\" title=\"Spree-wilson-Q-and-A-March-April-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Spree-wilson-Q-and-A-March-April-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Spree-wilson-Q-and-A-March-April-2012.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Spree-wilson-Q-and-A-March-April-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>SPREE WILSON<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>HOMETOWN: Nashville<br \/>\nINFLUENCES: Fleetwood Mac, Outkast, Snoop Dogg<br \/>\nALBUM: <em>The Spark<\/em>, out soon<br \/>\nWEBSITE: spreewilson.com<\/p>\n<p>Rapper, singer and guitarist Spree Wilson grew up in the capital of country music, Nashville\u2014but while he enjoyed learning from the city\u2019s rich musical tapestry, he knew his own destiny lay elsewhere. After high school he headed to Clark Atlanta University, where producer Dallas Austin became an invaluable mentor. Emboldened, Wilson headed for New York City with only a duffel bag full of belongings. He spent his first three weeks hitting the streets during the day while sleeping at Penn Station at night. Eventually his demo found its way to veteran rapper Q-Tip, who was impressed enough to help him secure a label deal. All along, Wilson resisted attempts to pigeonhole himself as a hip-hop artist alone, citing inspirations including Jimi Hendrix, Elton John and the Velvet Underground. <em>The Spark<\/em> features production from Organized Noize, the team best known for its work with Outkast\u2014apt, as Wilson calls the duo\u2019s 1998<em> Aquemini<\/em> \u201cthe landmark album of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPREE WILSON HOMETOWN: Nashville INFLUENCES: Fleetwood Mac, Outkast, Snoop Dogg ALBUM: The Spark, out soon WEBSITE: spreewilson.com Rapper, singer and guitarist Spree Wilson grew up in the capital of country music, Nashville\u2014but while he enjoyed learning from the city\u2019s rich musical tapestry, he knew his own destiny lay elsewhere. After high school he headed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[3945,3946,3303,3944,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660"}],"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=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6671,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}