{"id":5128,"date":"2011-12-29T18:03:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2012-01-02T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:06:08","slug":"gimme-five-rapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/12\/gimme-five-rapsody\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme Five! Rapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5218\" title=\"Rapsody\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>This Snow Hill, NC native has made a name for herself as the first lady of Kooley High and as a solo artist, working at the right hand of mentor and hip hop mastermind 9th Wonder.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"www.rapsodyonline.com\">Rapsody<\/a> has a flow that won&#8217;t quit and a way with rhymes, but can this masterful emcee handle a round of five furious questions?<\/p>\n<p>See for yourself after the jump!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. If your music were a historic event, what would it be?<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5217\" title=\"Rapsody\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody1-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody1-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody1.png 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>The Harlem Renaissance<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. What was the moment you realized music might work out as something more than a hobby?<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 2005, when 9th Wonder told me I was a star.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Describe your writing process.<\/strong><br \/>\nI<strong><\/strong> come up with a concept first most times, and other times I just write whatever comes to my mind. I plug the words into my cadence. I like to write in my blackberry in the dark, with a black light on, and the beat loud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5216\" title=\"Rapsody\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rapsody.png 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><strong>4. Who\/what might be a few inspirations or influences that would really surprise people?<\/strong><br \/>\nHmm..that might surprise people? I&#8217;d say Legends of the Fall. One of my favorite movies. I fell in love with their respect of a culture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (How \u00e2\u20ac\u2122d that turn out?)<\/strong><br \/>\nI wanted to be a rapper, play ball at Duke University and then go to play in the WNBA. That was it. I wanted to be an emcee and a basketball player. I&#8217;m one for two. I&#8217;d say it is turning out as I always dreamed it would.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; -\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Keep checking in to Rapsody&#8217;s <a href=\"www.rapsodyonline.com \">website<\/a> for new chances to catch this lady (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kooleyhigh.com\/\">her crew<\/a>) live in action. And by all means, give Rapsody a high five when you see her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Snow Hill, NC native has made a name for herself as the first lady of Kooley High and as a solo artist, working at the right hand of mentor and hip hop mastermind 9th Wonder.\u00c2\u00a0 Rapsody has a flow that won&#8217;t quit and a way with rhymes, but can this masterful emcee handle a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-5128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-gimme-five"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}