{"id":778,"date":"2002-10-30T18:32:58","date_gmt":"2002-10-31T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/31\/its-tricky\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:55:08","slug":"its-tricky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/30\/its-tricky\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s tricky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15695,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mtv.com\\\/news\\\/articles\\\/1458435\\\/20021030\\\/run_dmc.jhtml?headlines=true&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090917113350\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.mtv.com:80\\\/news\\\/articles\\\/1458435\\\/20021030\\\/run_dmc.jhtml?headlines=true&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 21:47:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 23:31:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:18:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:18:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15696,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/21237&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050416205855\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/21237&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 21:48:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 23:31:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:18:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:18:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, this just sucks \u2014 Jam Master Jay, DJ for Run-DMC., was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1458435\/20021030\/run_dmc.jhtml?headlines=true\" title=\"Jam Master Jay, Run-DMC DJ, Killed in Shooting\">shot and killed<\/a> in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>While most of my music listening is more on the side of goth, industrial, and electronic, there&#8217;s a lot of &#8216;old-school&#8217; rap in my collection, and Run-DMC were some of the true pioneers of the field. They also stayed in the game for fun, making a lot of good, upbeat, fun songs, without stooping to the guns and violence of the &#8216;gangsta rap&#8217; that has become so popular of late. Truly sad to see something like this happen.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/21237\" title=\"MeFi comments thread\">MeFi<\/a> for the link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jam Master Jay, DJ for Run-DMC., was shot and killed in the studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[80,2237],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-run-dmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}