{"id":759,"date":"2010-08-12T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:19:43","slug":"fatback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/others\/fatback.htm","title":{"rendered":"Fatback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatback was basically a funk band that recorded in the 1970&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>As far as this site is concerned, however, it is one track in particular that lands it a place on this site.<\/p>\n<p>The track is called &#8220;King Tim III (Personality Jock)&#8221;.\u00a0 It was released in 1979 and is considered by many to be the first hip hop song in history.<\/p>\n<p>The song\u00a0 was\u00a0 released just before a certain other tune called &#8220;<a href=\"\/features\/rappersdelight.htm\">Rapper&#8217;s Delight<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It appears on their 1979 album &#8220;XII&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Listen to &#8220;King Tim III&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UcTP4cvXSP0?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/others.htm\">Back to Others Figures Biographies<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatback was basically a funk band that recorded in the 1970&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s. As far as this site is concerned, however, it is one track in particular that lands it a place on this site. The track is called &#8220;King Tim III (Personality Jock)&#8221;.\u00a0 It was released in 1979 and is considered by many to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,43,20,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}