{"id":2707,"date":"2020-05-30T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2020-05-30T01:00:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:00:46","slug":"lil-tjay-the-bronx-born-mc-leans-deeply-into-the-sound-of-modern-day-nyc-with-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Lil Tjay: The Bronx-Born MC Leans Deeply Into The Sound Of Modern-Day NYC With &#8220;State Of Emergency&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re under the impression that New York City\u2019s interpretation of drill music is all teeth-gnashing and chest-beating, that\u2019s only because you haven\u2019t heard Lil Tjay\u2019s take on it. The Bronx-born MC\u2014infamous in his city for records like \u201cF.N\u201d and \u201cBrothers,\u201d and outside it for the Polo G collaboration \u201cPop Out\u201d\u2014leans deeply into the sound of modern-day NYC with his State of Emergency EP.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2708\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2708\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lil-Tjay-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lil-Tjay-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lil-Tjay-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Lil-Tjay.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geo.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/state-of-emergency\/1511800504?mt=1&amp;app=music&amp;at=1010lLq2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StreamStateOfEmergency<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The man who once claimed that early fans called him \u201cthe Bronx Justin Bieber\u201d is still singing, but here it\u2019s over production from renowned drill music soundsmiths 808 Melo and AXL BEATS. The project\u2019s guest MCs include genre progenitors Fivio Foreign and the dearly departed Pop Smoke, as well as a handful of the city\u2019s other most prevalent young voices, including Jay Critch, Sheff G, and Jay Gwuapo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re under the impression that New York City\u2019s interpretation of drill music is all teeth-gnashing and chest-beating, that\u2019s only because you haven\u2019t heard Lil Tjay\u2019s take on it. The Bronx-born MC\u2014infamous in his city for records like \u201cF.N\u201d and \u201cBrothers,\u201d and outside it for the Polo G collaboration \u201cPop Out\u201d\u2014leans deeply into the sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[166,167,168,169,170,171,172],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-bronx","tag-deeply","tag-emergency","tag-leans","tag-modern","tag-sound","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}