{"id":7124,"date":"2023-11-10T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:18:38","slug":"p-nology-takes-on-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=7124","title":{"rendered":"P.nology takes on the System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British rapper P.nology takes on the establishment with his latest song, <strong><em>&#8216;Im Not A Slave to The System&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>, which features veteran Jamaican dub poet Yasus Afari.<\/p>\n<p>The roots-reggae track, produced by Jamaican DJ Karim, was released on November 7. Both artists deliver a defiant message against the falsehoods taught to black people over the years.<\/p>\n<p>When he came up with the concept for the song, P.nology approached Yasus Afari, an uncompromising advocate for Afrocentric principles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I linked up with Yasus through my uncle Charley, better known as Redlox, in Jamaica. We talk music quite a lot, he knew I wanted someone different on this single, someone who inspires and has a way with words and he introduced me to Yasus,&#8221; P.nology explained. &#8220;I sent the track to him with chorus and my verse and he loved it just as much as I did and could see the message I wanted the track to have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>P.nology, who is from Coventry in the British Midlands, renews his link with DJ Karim, who also produced the remix for <strong><em>&#8216;I Am&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>, his previous single.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8216;I Am&#8217;<\/em><\/strong>, which he recorded with American rapper Shifty P, was ska-inspired and a salute to that sound which P.nology has listened to since his youth.<\/p>\n<p>The son of Barbadian parents, P.nology grew up appreciating West Indian culture in The Midlands, a region with a massive West Indian community since the 1960s.\u00a0 His &#8216;Uncle Charley&#8217; is Charley Anderson, a member of British ska band, The Selecter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British rapper P.nology takes on the establishment with his latest song, &#8216;Im Not A Slave to The System&#8217;, which features veteran Jamaican dub poet Yasus Afari. The roots-reggae track, produced by Jamaican DJ Karim, was released on November 7. Both artists deliver a defiant message against the falsehoods taught to black people over the years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7124","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\/7124","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=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7125,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}