{"id":7435,"date":"2014-10-28T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2014-10-28T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T21:31:04","slug":"funkmaster-flex-to-publish-untold-stories-about-notorious-b-i-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=7435","title":{"rendered":"Funkmaster Flex to Publish Untold Stories About Notorious B.I.G."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/funk-flex.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/funk-flex.jpg?resize=250%2C241\" alt=\"Funk-Flex\" width=\"250\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7436\" \/><\/a>According to published reports, Funkmaster Flex is teaming up with journalist Karen Hunter and publisher Simon Schuster to write untold stories about rapper Notorious B.I.G.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from the book include how he introduced B.I.G. to Nas. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI introduced Big to Nas on my block in Brooklyn. Nas came by to visit my sister, and I went and brought Big to the house. Nas had Illmatic out at the time\u2026 \u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also describes how \u201cWho Shot Ya\u201d, a biggie record, was originally meant for Mary J Blige.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe song \u2018Who Shot Ya\u2019 was originally an intro for Mary J. Blige\u2019s album. Uptown\/MCA said it was too hard. The song in its original form had a verse from Big, Keith Murray and LL Cool J, though LL never did his verse. The song still exists!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s currently no release date. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>According to published reports, Funkmaster Flex is teaming up with journalist Karen Hunter and publisher Simon Schuster to write untold stories about rapper Notorious B.I.G.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[469,807],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-funkmaster-flex","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-1VV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/funk-flex.jpg?fit=250%2C241&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}