{"id":1295,"date":"2012-03-01T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2012-03-01T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:51:48","slug":"representing-the-underrepresented-ugk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/2012\/03\/representing-the-underrepresented-ugk\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing The Underrepresented: UGK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rap savvy may have discovered UGK, however they \u00a0remain a largely unknown group. The incarceration of Pimp C in 2002 led to Bun B forming a grass roots movement to free his counterpart in the rap duo. In doing so Bun B released the album <em>Trill <\/em>to support his partner. This brought Bun B attention on a national level and soon after attention to UGK&#8217;s 2007 album <em>Underground Kingz <\/em>(what UGK stands for). UGK&#8217;s recent recordings have surfaced in the main media, but most of their older recordings still remain in the underground scene. \u00a0This is their song &#8220;Underground&#8221; from the 1994 album <em>\u00a0Super Tight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>** <strong>Warning<\/strong>, the content below is heavily explicit. If you are offended by this as a listener please choose a different selection from the Music tab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UGK - Underground\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mWJ173_KoVo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rap savvy may have discovered UGK, however they \u00a0remain a largely unknown group. The incarceration of Pimp C in 2002 led to Bun&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":789,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53708],"tags":[53720,105110,53721,35153,53723,53719,1112],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-representing-the-underrepresented","tag-bun-b","tag-hip-hop","tag-pimp-c","tag-rap","tag-super-tight","tag-ugk","tag-underground"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/files\/2012\/03\/ugk-da-game-been-good-to-me.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}