{"id":29632,"date":"2015-03-08T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T00:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=29632"},"modified":"2015-03-11T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:46:20","slug":"missy-elliots-got-a-nu-playthaaang-sharayaand-shes-banji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=29632","title":{"rendered":"Missy Elliot\u2019s Got A Nu Playthaaang Sharaya\u2026and She\u2019s \u201cBanji\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=29633\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29633\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/sharaya-e1425778834402-560x840.jpg\" alt=\"sharaya-e1425778834402\" width=\"560\" height=\"840\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been following Missy Elliot\u2019s new pop\/hip hop prot\u00e9g\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharayajmusic\">Sharaya J<\/a> for a couple of years now. Back in 2013 she put out club banger<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zwkbQleKThI\"> Banji<\/a> (an acronym for \u201cBe Authentic Never Jeopardize Individuality), produced by Elliot, with cheeky lyrics like \u201cIf he gotta girl, bet I can make you leave her\u201d. But since then, we haven\u2019t heard much from the Jersey girl. That\u2019s all about to change. The 30 y\/o rapper who grew up in the animated NYC ballroom scene, walking for the House of Lebeija in Face and Runway categories, is hoping to bring that same frentic energy back to the dance floors. \u201cI know for sure that we need to start dancing again\u201d, says Sharaya. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to express yourself, to get away from problems, to just be real and work it all out on the dance floor with your people.\u201d Sharaya J\u2019s debut album is due out this month. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2015\/03\/05\/sharaya-j\">The Fader<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwkbQleKThI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve been following Missy Elliot\u2019s new pop\/hip hop prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Sharaya J for a couple of years now. Back in 2013 she put out club banger Banji (an acronym for \u201cBe Authentic Never Jeopardize Individuality), produced by Elliot, with cheeky lyrics like \u201cIf he gotta girl, bet I can make you leave her\u201d. But since then, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[4653,4652,1255,625,4651,2185,1541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29634,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29632\/revisions\/29634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}