{"id":2699,"date":"2022-01-07T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T09:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T09:35:42","slug":"boss-champs-is-an-international-commodity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"Boss Champs is an International Commodity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018International Commodity\u2019, the EP from singjay Boss Champs, will be released in January. The Los Angeles-based artist says fans can expect a fresh sound, that blends his diverse influences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a collection of international sounds. People have referenced it as dancehall, reggaeton, Afrobeats, R&amp;B, and hip hop. My team, most notably Q Bwoy of LAreggae.com, has referred to it as TropHop, a fusion of popular tropical sounds and hip hop,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EP has six songs including <\/span><b><i>\u2018So Dangerous\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b><i>\u2018Won\u2019t go Home\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b><i>\u2018Need Your Love\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b><i>\u2018Control Freaks\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which have already been released. <\/span><b><i>\u2018Like You\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b><i>\u2018Rong Bon<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">g\u2019 complete the list of songs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boss Champs considers <\/span><b><i>\u2018Like You\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a hit in Latin America, to be his most successful song since he started recording in 2012. He has great expectations for <\/span><b><i>\u2018International Commodity\u2019 <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which has music industry heavyweight Mike Lynn as executive producer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Lynn was president of Aftermath Records, Dr. Dre\u2019s company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boss Champs was born in Jamaica and spent much of his youth in Portmore, just outside of Kingston. He migrated to the United States and lived in Washington DC and California where he studied acting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His entertainment career started as an actor. He has appeared in films (as Nico East, his given name) like <\/span><b><i>\u2018Portrait of A Woman\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b><i>\u2018Sealing Your Fate\u2019<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018International Commodity\u2019, the EP from singjay Boss Champs, will be released in January. The Los Angeles-based artist says fans can expect a fresh sound, that blends his diverse influences. \u201cIt&#8217;s a collection of international sounds. People have referenced it as dancehall, reggaeton, Afrobeats, R&amp;B, and hip hop. My team, most notably Q Bwoy of LAreggae.com, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}