{"id":41138,"date":"2018-08-23T13:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=41138"},"modified":"2018-08-23T13:28:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:28:58","slug":"calvin-valentine-vhs-feat-illa-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=41138","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Valentine &#8211; Vhs Feat. Illa J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a0664508055_10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a0664508055_10.jpg\" alt=\"a0664508055_10\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41139\" srcset=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a0664508055_10.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a0664508055_10-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a0664508055_10-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a0664508055_10-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a0664508055_10-144x144.jpg 144w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a0664508055_10-900x900.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Los-Angeles based producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and emcee Calvin Valentine is preparing to release his Mello Music Group solo debut album <em>Keep Summer Safe<\/em> on September 14th. In anticipation, today he releases his new single &#8220;Vhs&#8221; featuring Detroit-based musician Illa J.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vhs&#8221; follows the release of Valentine\u2019s first album single 911 Turbo earlier this month. Both will be included in the upcoming ten-track LP <em>Keep Summer Safe<\/em>, where Calvin lends his lush production, singing, and rhymes to this collection of stoney tracks that mix chilled out R&#038;B with melodic hip-hop vibes.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin comments: <em>&#8220;I wrote \u2018Vhs\u2019 at my dad\u2019s house after he broke out all the old home movies. We sat on his porch smoking purple trinity and reminiscing on old times. The song is the soundtrack to my childhood. I had recorded the hook but it just wasn\u2019t exactly how I wanted it. So I had my dude Illa J come through and he killed it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Vhs&#8221; feat. Illa J below!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 75%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=174879964\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1448610753\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/calvinvalentinemmg.bandcamp.com\/album\/keep-summer-safe\">Keep Summer Safe by Calvin Valentine<\/a><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los-Angeles based producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and emcee Calvin Valentine is preparing to release his Mello Music Group solo debut album Keep Summer Safe on September 14th. In anticipation, today he releases his new single &#8220;Vhs&#8221; featuring Detroit-based musician Illa J. &#8220;Vhs&#8221; follows the release of Valentine\u2019s first album single 911 Turbo earlier this month. Both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,6,76],"tags":[9519,9521,319,4887,9522,126,2065,9520],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138"}],"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=41138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41141,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41138\/revisions\/41141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}