{"id":3500,"date":"2011-11-07T07:59:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T13:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2013-11-22T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:14:33","slug":"sugarhill-gang-documentary-and-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/headlines\/sugarhill-gang-documentary-and-new-album.htm","title":{"rendered":"Sugarhill Gang Documentary and New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hip Hop Legends, <a href=\"\/artists\/emcees\/sugarhillgang.htm\">The Sugarhill Gang<\/a>, are back in the news with two projects &#8211; one on film and one on wax.<\/p>\n<p>The new documentary called <strong><em>I Want My Name Back <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>was directed by Roger Paradiso and follows the history of Wonder Mike and Master Gee&#8217;s struggle against the music industry since their seminal hit <a href=\"\/features\/rappersdelight.htm\">&#8220;Rapper&#8217;s Delight&#8221;<\/a> dropped in 1979. \u00a0They promise new revelations and surprises about their relationship with Sugar Hill Records and Joey Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>They are also finishing up their newest album that promises to flex their diverse interests and include both reggae and rock based tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hip Hop Legends, The Sugarhill Gang, are back in the news with two projects &#8211; one on film and one on wax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[137,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}