{"id":21819,"date":"2012-08-22T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=21819"},"modified":"2012-08-22T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:44:48","slug":"dj-premier-vs-pete-rock-at-east-river-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=21819","title":{"rendered":"DJ Premier vs. Pete Rock at East River Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8\/22\/12, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.<br \/>\nEast River Park<br \/>\nMontgomery St. To E. 12 St., FDR Drive<br \/>\nManhattan, New York<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/555.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[21819]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21822\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This concert, part of the 20th anniversary of the hip-hop showcase Lyricist Lounge, features a turntable battle between two legendary DJs.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Martin, known by his stage name DJ Premier, is one of hip-hop&#8217;s most prominent producers, and Rolling Stone called him &#8220;hip-hop\u2019s greatest producer of all time.\u201d DJ Premier worked behind the scenes of several seminal rap albums, such as Nas&#8217; &#8220;Illmatic&#8221;, Jay-Z&#8217;s &#8220;Reasonable Doubt&#8221; and Notorious B.I.G.&#8217;s &#8220;Ready to Die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pete Rock has had a career just as acclaimed as DJ Premier&#8217;s. He also helped produce &#8220;Illmatic&#8221;, as well as Jay-Z and Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;Watch the Throne&#8221; and Heavy D&#8217;s &#8220;Peaceful Journey.&#8221; About.com lists Pete Rock as the third on a list of the 50 greatest hip-hop producers.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/eastriverpark\/events\/2012\/08\/22\/summerstage-pete-rock-vs-dj-premier\">http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/22\/12, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. East River Park Montgomery St. To E. 12 St., FDR Drive Manhattan, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21828,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions\/21828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}