{"id":16323,"date":"2011-10-26T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16323"},"modified":"2011-10-26T12:24:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:24:17","slug":"musa-okwonga-a-rapper-no-longer-low-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16323","title":{"rendered":"Musa Okwonga: A rapper no longer low key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Musa Okwonga<br \/>\nWednesday, 26 October 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lowkey.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16324\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=16324\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lowkey.jpg?fit=500%2C678\" data-orig-size=\"500,678\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lowkey\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lowkey.jpg?fit=221%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lowkey.jpg?fit=500%2C678\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lowkey.jpg?resize=221%2C300\" alt=\"\" title=\"lowkey\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lowkey.jpg?resize=221%2C300 221w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lowkey.jpg?resize=110%2C150 110w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lowkey.jpg?w=500 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>Last Friday I went along to The Garage in Highbury, where UK rapper Lowkey was celebrating the launch of his new album. \u201cSoundtrack to the Struggle\u201d, released without major label support, has seen phenomenal success: on the day of its release it surged into the top 10 of the UK iTunes charts, and made similar waves in a host of other countries, including the US, Canada and Australia. \u201cToo Much\u201d, which has emerged as something of a lead single from this album, has also been played by Greg James and Zane Lowe of BBC Radio 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.independent.co.uk\/2011\/10\/26\/a-rapper-no-longer-low-key\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;A rapper no longer low key&#8221; by Musa Okwonga<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musa Okwonga Wednesday, 26 October 2011 Last Friday I went along to The Garage in Highbury, where UK rapper Lowkey was celebrating the launch of his new album. \u201cSoundtrack to the Struggle\u201d, released without major label support, has seen phenomenal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16327,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions\/16327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}