{"id":7804,"date":"2012-10-29T22:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T05:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7804"},"modified":"2012-10-29T22:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T05:31:24","slug":"masta-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/10\/masta-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"MASTA ACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7805\" title=\"MASTA-ACE-M-Review-SeptOct-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MASTA-ACE-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MASTA-ACE-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MASTA-ACE-M-Review-SeptOct-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>MASTA ACE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>MA_Doom: Son of Yvonne<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>mastaace.com<\/p>\n<p>In the flashback skit that begins this hip-hop nostalgia trip, young Duval Clear rechristens himself Masta Ace. The Brooklyn MC has used that tag for nearly a quarter century, influencing scores of better known rappers, but this album\u2019s subtitle, <em>Son of Yvonne<\/em>, is perhaps the meaningful pseudonym. After all, it was Duval\u2019s mom\u2019s record collection\u2014romanticized on \u201cNinteen Seventy Something\u201d\u2014that first got him scratching, rhyming and dreaming of the limelight. As he recounts his rise from Brownsville break-dancer (\u201cwe was in the park, popping like hot chicken\u201d) to underground rap hero, dropping easy-does-it verses over producer MF Doom\u2019s soul-jazz backings, Ace comes off as gracious and effortlessly cool\u2014a ghetto poet whose momma raised him right.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MASTA ACE MA_Doom: Son of Yvonne mastaace.com In the flashback skit that begins this hip-hop nostalgia trip, young Duval Clear rechristens himself Masta Ace. The Brooklyn MC has used that tag for nearly a quarter century, influencing scores of better known rappers, but this album\u2019s subtitle, Son of Yvonne, is perhaps the meaningful pseudonym. After [&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":[196,10159,5181,5183,5182,5077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804"}],"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=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7806,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}