{"id":3886,"date":"2015-02-05T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2018-03-11T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T14:59:57","slug":"dot-a-rock-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/headlines\/dot-a-rock-passes-away.htm","title":{"rendered":"Dot A Rock Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darryl Mason, aka Dot a Rock of the <a title=\"Grandwizard Theodore and the Fantastic Five\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/emcees\/fantastic5.htm\">Fantastic Romantic 5<\/a>, passed away this week.<\/p>\n<p>The group was instrumental in the early development of hip hop as DJ&#8217;s added MC crews to help rock the party. \u00a0The group appeared alongside their counterparts the Cold Crush Brothers to fill out the roster of performers in the seminal film <a title=\"Wild Style\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/video\/wildstyle.htm\"><em>Wild Style<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YZjSO3IAJfU?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It seems like lately I&#8217;ve been posting too many of these notices&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tweets about the news from around the hip hop community.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>R.I.P. DOTA ROCK of the FANTASTIC 5 MC&#8217;S you will be missed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BIZ MARKIE (@BizMarkie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BizMarkie\/status\/563119670971338753\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REALDJPREMIER\" rel=\"nofollow\">@REALDJPREMIER<\/a>: R.I.P. To MC Dota Rock of the Legendary Fantastic 5 also known as the Fantastic Romantic Freaks&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheIceMan?src=hash\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TheIceMan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DJ Premier (@REALDJPREMIER) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REALDJPREMIER\/status\/563125662056452098\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>R.I.P. Mc Dota Rock!! Them Fantastic 5 Tapes Were EVERYTHING When I Was Growing Up<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig G (@MC_Craig_G) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MC_Craig_G\/status\/563104854219194370\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>R.I.P. Dot-A-Rock from the Fantastic Five &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/6MaIrNrgIS\">http:\/\/t.co\/6MaIrNrgIS<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/BFp7lM53fk\">http:\/\/t.co\/BFp7lM53fk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck D (@MrChuckD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrChuckD\/status\/563150852479676416\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>R.I.P to my legendary brother Dot A Rock<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rahiem Furious 5 (@Rahiem_Furious5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rahiem_Furious5\/status\/563150123128324096\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 5, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darryl Mason, aka Dot a Rock of the Fantastic Romantic 5, passed away this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[500],"tags":[49,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886"}],"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=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}