{"id":55927,"date":"2025-04-12T20:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/movies\/black-wax\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T20:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:04:15","slug":"black-wax","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/movies\/black-wax\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Wax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap&#8217;s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently reissued on video. Interspliced between performance footage of Scott-Heron and his Midnight Band are vignettes of him walking around Washington D.C., spouting his views on then-President Reagan (dubbed &#8220;Ray-Gun&#8221;) and generally dropping knowledge. The live performance features many of Scott-Heron&#8217;s best-known hits, including &#8220;Johannesburg,&#8221; &#8220;Winter in America,&#8221; and &#8220;Angel Dust,&#8221; among others. Warm, intelligent, and insightful throughout, Scott-Heron is clearly enjoying himself and the opportunity to espouse his views. A must for any fan of Scott-Heron&#8217;s, and definitely worth a look for fans of the funkier jazz music of the mid to late 1970&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"genres":[2796,3773],"dtquality":[],"dtcast":[12206,59854,59852,59853],"dtdirector":[59851],"dtyear":[20047],"class_list":["post-55927","movies","type-movies","status-publish","hentry","genres-documentary","genres-music","dtcast-ed-brady","dtcast-gia-scott-heron","dtcast-gil-scott-heron","dtcast-glen-astro-turner","dtdirector-robert-mugge","dtyear-20047"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movies\/55927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/movies"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55927"},{"taxonomy":"genres","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genres?post=55927"},{"taxonomy":"dtquality","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtquality?post=55927"},{"taxonomy":"dtcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtcast?post=55927"},{"taxonomy":"dtdirector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtdirector?post=55927"},{"taxonomy":"dtyear","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24craftsme.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dtyear?post=55927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}