{"id":203,"date":"2002-07-31T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-31T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/nelly_furtado_urban_music_awards.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:48:21","slug":"nelly_furtado_urban_music_awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/nelly_furtado_urban_music_awards.html","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Furtado nominated for 2002 Urban X-Posure Awards best hip-hop\/rap recording"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada’s foremost hip-hop talent, Nelly Furtado, has been nominated for best hip-hop\/rap recording<\/a> at tonight’s 2002 Urban X-Posure Awards, Canada’s urban music showcase, for her track Turn Off The Lights. When I’m Like A Bird hit the airwaves, I was, like, “Man, this is a dope track. Check out that bassline.” It pleases me to see such a fine, fly rapper like Nelly get her respects.<\/p>\n

Ahem.<\/p>\n

As I heard on CBC this morning, the Urban X-Posure Awards<\/a> is a people’s choice awards. Nelly Furtado’s name was among 26 others, most of them actual rap and hip-hop artists. How the public decided to choose her over 25 other artists who, undoubtedly, have contributed more to Canadian hip-hop is beyond me. Do they even listen to music? Do they even know what the genres “hip-hop” or “rap” even mean? Folks, the music has only been around for just over 20 years<\/em>, which is more than I can say for Furtado’s fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada’s foremost hip-hop talent, Nelly Furtado, has been nominated for best hip-hop\/rap recording<\/a> at tonight’s 2002 Urban X-Posure Awards, Canada’s urban music showcase, for her track Turn Off The Lights. When I’m Like A Bird hit the airwaves, I was, like, “Man, this is a dope track. Check out that bassline.” It pleases me … Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}