{"id":1459,"date":"2012-02-24T03:53:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2012-03-05T07:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T07:10:53","slug":"koncept-awaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Koncept: Awaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Koncept-awaken-Cover-490x441.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Koncept-awaken-Cover-490x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Koncept-awaken-Cover-490x441\" width=\"490\" height=\"441\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Koncept-awaken-Cover-490x441.jpg 490w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Koncept-awaken-Cover-490x441-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Album: Awaken<br \/>\nArtist: Koncept<br \/>\nReleased Dec 13, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from the cold streets of Queens, we have emcee <strong>Koncept<\/strong> who just dropped an album I can&#8217;t stop playing. For those who said hip-hop was dead haven&#8217;t heard what this cat can do. It was refreshing hearing rhymes that tell a story and beats that were original, crisp, and made you sink into a unforgettable state of mind. <strong>Koncept<\/strong> is no rookie in the game, he has <strong>Royce 5&#8217;9<\/strong> dropping some bars with him on the single &#8220;Watch the Sky Fall&#8221; which is produced by <strong>Marco Polo<\/strong>. This track is only one of the many bangers on this album. Listening to the album you can hear influences from <strong>Brand Nubian<\/strong>, <strong>Dead Prez<\/strong>, soulful blues, R&#038;B, and that east coast vibe you can only get from being a native. It is available digitally on itunes <a href=\" http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/artist\/koncept\/id478114552#\">Here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>-Crusty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Album: Awaken Artist: Koncept Released Dec 13, 2012 Hailing from the cold streets of Queens, we have emcee Koncept who just dropped an album I can&#8217;t stop playing. For those who said hip-hop was dead haven&#8217;t heard what this cat can do. It was refreshing hearing rhymes that tell a story and beats that were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}