{"id":544,"date":"2008-05-01T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-05-01T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:40:08","slug":"things-fall-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Things Fall Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defjam.com\/site\/artist_home.php?artist_id=605\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rising Down cover\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/risingdown.jpg\" title=\"Rising Down cover\" alt=\"Rising Down cover\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you get a chance, do please take a gander at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/music\/0818,the-roots-bury-the-leader,427219,22.html\"  target=\"_blank\">my review<\/a>, in Wednesday&#8217;s <em>Village Voice<\/em>, of the Roots&#8217; new, this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-ish album, <em>Rising Down<\/em>, above.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MPKtYhRZYSI\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Get Busy,&#8221;<\/a> the first single, burns like the bombing of MOVE, mating a weighty kick-and-snare to a morbid chorus of fuzzy synth drones. &#8220;My squad half-Mandrill, half-Mandela,&#8221; rapper Black Thought intones. &#8220;My band &#8217;bout 70 strong, just like Fela.&#8221; Coupled with guest lyrical maestros Dice Raw (&#8220;I&#8217;m half-dead\/Never felt more alive&#8221;; &#8220;I&#8217;m kinda W.E.B. DuBois meets Heavy D &amp; the Boyz&#8221;) and the reedy Peedi Crack, the whole fest bristles with the nervous energy of riot control on dust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a jaunty read, if I, myself, say so. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you get a chance, do please take a gander at my review, in Wednesday&#8217;s Village Voice, of the Roots&#8217; new, this-is-the-way-the-world-ends-ish album, Rising Down, above. &#8220;Get Busy,&#8221; the first single, burns like the bombing of MOVE, mating a weighty kick-and-snare to a morbid chorus of fuzzy synth drones. &#8220;My squad half-Mandrill, half-Mandela,&#8221; rapper Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,51,10,7,39,8,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}