{"id":1402,"date":"2009-08-18T07:36:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T14:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2009-08-18T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:50:36","slug":"mc-duke-dont-be-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"E.Kude &#8211; Don&#8217;t Be Afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a personal favorite of mine, even though I probably can&#8217;t even fully justify its favorite status &#8211; something about the vocals &#038; summery vibe just works really nicely (especially given the fact that right now its, erm&#8230; summer.)   If anyone knows where the ragga vocals are from (if they are indeed from another track), feel free to leave a comment below. They&#8217;ve got me stumped for sure.<br \/>\nThis EP is by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=37\">MC Duke<\/a> who I previously did a lengthy post about.  Discogs claims it&#8217;s from 93 but the EP sounds like it could be 92 or 93 to me, especially because &#8220;come my selector&#8221; came out right after it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/ekude-Dont-Be-Afraid\/release\/154210\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/dont_be_afraid.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/E Kude - Dont Be Afraid.mp3\">E Kude &#8211; Don&#8217;t Be Afraid<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1402-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/E%20Kude%20-%20Dont%20Be%20Afraid.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/E%20Kude%20-%20Dont%20Be%20Afraid.mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/E%20Kude%20-%20Dont%20Be%20Afraid.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a personal favorite of mine, even though I probably can&#8217;t even fully justify its favorite status &#8211; something about the vocals &#038; summery vibe just works really nicely (especially given the fact that right now its, erm&#8230; summer.) If anyone knows where the ragga vocals are from (if they are indeed from another track),&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=1402\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">E.Kude &#8211; Don&#8217;t Be Afraid<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}