{"id":1390,"date":"2010-08-05T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T01:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2010-08-08T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T23:37:39","slug":"song-of-the-day-oooh-by-de-la-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Oooh.” by De La Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not often that a rap song makes it into the ranks of my favourite songs.\u00a0 Public Enemy and N.W.A. have some in there, but mostly my favourite songs are done by guys like this:<\/p>\n

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\nBut this song<\/a> is great.\u00a0 Check out the actual video<\/a> too, if you want to see some Wizard of Oz zaniness.<\/p>\n

Oh, that De La Soul.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, this song is about having a good time.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with that.\u00a0 One of the reasons why I don’t listen to as much rap as I used to is because of the dumb gang lyrics.\u00a0 Okay, so you sell drugs and shoot people\/have been shot.\u00a0 I get it.<\/p>\n

It gets kind of old after a while.\u00a0 N.W.A. was big when I was in high-school, so that was part of my rebellion.\u00a0 (I’ll show you, Mom & Dad!)\u00a0 It also happens to be very finely crafted and catchy music.\u00a0 Dr. Dre is famous as a producer for a reason, you know.<\/p>\n

I’d go on and on about why this song stands out for me, but it’s not really something I can put into words.\u00a0 At least not tonight.\u00a0 I’m tired and sore.\u00a0 Are you getting sick of reading that yet?\u00a0 Maybe I should stop complaining.\u00a0 After all, if I’m being overworked at my job it’s kind of my own damn fault.<\/p>\n

I am actually kind of thankful for the one, sometimes two hours each day that I am forced to just sit down and listen to music as I ride to\/from work.\u00a0 It’s the only way I listen to the albums I have but have not listened to.\u00a0 And that list is surprisingly long.\u00a0 Makes me wonder if that money could have been better spent, but you all know me.\u00a0 I’d spend it instead on fembot comics and phone sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not often that a rap song makes it into the ranks of my favourite songs.\u00a0 Public Enemy and N.W.A. have some in there, but mostly my favourite songs are done by guys like this: But this song is great.\u00a0 Check out the actual video too, if you want to see some Wizard of Oz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[109,376,126],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-00s","tag-de-la-soul","tag-rap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}