{"id":7633,"date":"2013-12-09T14:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=7633"},"modified":"2017-12-11T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:13:20","slug":"still-black-still-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=7633","title":{"rendered":"Still Black, Still Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7634\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7634\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/black-giftofgab-hearme.jpg\" alt=\"Gift of Gab\" width=\"526\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/black-giftofgab-hearme.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/black-giftofgab-hearme-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gift of Gab<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Westcott Theater served up a dose of\u00a0 West Coast positivity with the anticipated arrival of\u00a0Blackalicious\u00a0in Syracuse last night.\u00a0 The group was founded in the 1990s by\u00a0Tim Parker (aka Gift of Gab) and Xavier Moseley (aka DJ Chief\u00a0Xcel).\u00a0 Gift of Gab had a health scare with kidney failure\u00a0last year, so it was good to see him back on stage.<\/p>\n<p>The duo\u00a0was joined on stage by\u00a0the Portland team Lifesavas,\u00a0 made up of Vursatyl\u00a0and Jumbo the\u00a0Garbage Man (who wore a &#8220;Less Drama, More Music&#8221; t-shirt).<\/p>\n<p>Their hour-long set included the first Blackalicious single &#8220;Swan Lake&#8221; and some new material, including the song &#8220;Blacka,&#8221;\u00a0from their upcoming album\u00a0(due out in March).<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, check out the East <a title=\"blackalicious swan lake\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/blackalicious\/swan-lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Funk f<\/a>r<a title=\"blackalicious swan lake\" href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/blackalicious\/swan-lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">om this song<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Openers for the show were\u00a0Our-Reality and Chaz Ultra.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7635\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7635\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7635\" title=\"Vursatyl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/black-vers-2.jpg\" alt=\"Vursatyl\" width=\"508\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/black-vers-2.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/black-vers-2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vursatyl from the Lifesavas<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westcott Theater served up a dose of\u00a0 West Coast positivity with the anticipated arrival of\u00a0Blackalicious\u00a0in Syracuse last night.\u00a0 The group was founded in the 1990s by\u00a0Tim Parker (aka Gift of Gab) and Xavier Moseley (aka DJ Chief\u00a0Xcel).\u00a0 Gift of Gab had a health scare with kidney failure\u00a0last year, so it was good to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[2524,3443,3446,145,3445,3447,4999,3027,3444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7633"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24269,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions\/24269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}