{"id":43714,"date":"2019-06-29T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T03:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=43714"},"modified":"2019-06-29T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T03:18:25","slug":"hailing-from-montgomery-alabama-chika-unveils-her-new-song-video-high-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=43714","title":{"rendered":"Chika Unveils Her New Song &#038; Video &#8220;High Rises&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jzJxo1I8a6c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Montgomery, Alabama, 22-year-old rapper, singer, poet, and activist <strong>Chika<\/strong> is truly one of one. Emerging today as the reincarnation of so many powerful hip-hop voices before her combined with an ear for sounds beyond genre classification and an integrity-driven voice speaking to youth culture and world issues, <strong>Chika<\/strong> has become one of the music industry&#8217;s most powerful young voices in just less than a year. <\/p>\n<p>Today, she shares the exciting news of signing to Warner Records, one of the most iconic record labels in music. Alongside that exciting partnership, <strong>Chika<\/strong> released her new track and official video &#8220;High Rises,&#8221; off her anticipated debut EP coming this summer. Both the song and the video showcase <strong>Chika&#8217;s<\/strong> powerful and personal story of overcoming life&#8217;s obstacles and exceeding expectations into manifested greatness &#8211; a message that resonates strongly with anyone who listens or watches. <\/p>\n<p>The official video was directed by <strong>Cierra<\/strong> &#8220;Sh00ter&#8221; Glaude and shot in a community center in Alabama, where both <strong>Chika<\/strong> and <strong>Cierra<\/strong> are from. <\/p>\n<p>Watch &#8220;High Rises&#8221; above, and check out more of Chika&#8217;s music <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/chikaoranika\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailing from Montgomery, Alabama, 22-year-old rapper, singer, poet, and activist Chika is truly one of one. Emerging today as the reincarnation of so many powerful hip-hop voices before her combined with an ear for sounds beyond genre classification and an integrity-driven voice speaking to youth culture and world issues, Chika has become one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,6,25],"tags":[10290,2013,10291,10288,319,4887,10289,10292,2065,3256,10272,7722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714"}],"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=43714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43721,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions\/43721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}