{"id":9577,"date":"2024-10-20T12:11:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2024-10-20T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:11:27","slug":"e-dee-gives-blessings-with-jstylez-and-jredie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9577","title":{"rendered":"E-Dee Gives Blessings with JStylez and Jredie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American rappers JStylez and Jredie blend their hip hop skills with Jamaican dancehall deejay E-Dee on <strong><em>\u2018Count up Ya Blessings\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, which was released in July.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles-based trio co-wrote the uptempo song which E-Dee describes as a blend of, \u201cAmerican hip hop and pop culture and Caribbean dancehall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that <strong><em>\u2018Count up Ya Blessings\u2019<\/em><\/strong> stemmed from JStylez\u2019 desire to do something different. Given E-Dee\u2019s dancehall background, experimenting with Jamaican culture seemed natural.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThing is, he\u2019s always liked my music an\u2019 I always liked his flow. We met in a club some time ago an\u2019 hit it off, so it\u2019s a great vibe,\u201d said E-Dee.<\/p>\n<p>JStylez and Jredi earned their bonafides in the rugged Southern California hip hop scene, maybe the most competitive in the world. Their influences include Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Blackstreet and Usher.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018All The Glory\u2019 and \u2018Angels on Standby\u2019 are among JStylez\u2019 previous songs, while Jredi is known for tracks\u00a0 like <strong><em>\u2018Celly\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Distant Cousin\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>E-Dee was born in Clarendon parish in central Jamaica, where he honed his skills as a deejay. Since moving to the United States, he has released three albums and appeared as an actor in several movies including <strong><em>\u2018Out The Gate\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018Temperature Rising\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018Gangland\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rappers JStylez and Jredie blend their hip hop skills with Jamaican dancehall deejay E-Dee on \u2018Count up Ya Blessings\u2019, which was released in July. The Los Angeles-based trio co-wrote the uptempo song which E-Dee describes as a blend of, \u201cAmerican hip hop and pop culture and Caribbean dancehall.\u201d He added that \u2018Count up Ya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9577","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\/9577","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=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}