{"id":19814,"date":"2020-08-13T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19814"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T17:14:38","slug":"new-music-revue-ontario-rapper-lee-reed-creates-essential-art-with-new-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/08\/13\/new-music-revue-ontario-rapper-lee-reed-creates-essential-art-with-new-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Ontario rapper Lee Reed creates essential art with new EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0145456995_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0145456995_10-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0145456995_10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0145456995_10.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/a0145456995_10-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lee Reed<br \/>\n<em>Murder Hornet Landlord<br \/>\n<\/em>(Independent)<br \/>\n4.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to recording music, there\u2019s only one question the artist needs to ask: does the final product accurately convey their thoughts and feelings about the subject they are trying to depict? Using the compelling sounds of hip hop, Lee Reed\u2019s new EP <em>Murder Hornet Landlord<\/em> provides in expert detail a vivid depiction of the Ontario-based rapper\u2019s thoughts on and frustrations over today\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n<p>A global pandemic, an outbreak against systemic racism, and a murderous uprising of killer bees: Reed manages to vividly depict his own personal experiences with these issues while at the same time delivering to his audience an engrossing musical experience on this short and sweet five-song release.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no understatement that this year has been hell on earth for all of us. That\u2019s why we need artists like Reed to produce works of art like <em>Murder Hornet Landlord. <\/em>This album is not just a epic musical experience: it\u2019s a work of art that shows that even in the most dire of situations nobody is alone and that we are all in this together. Thanks, Lee Reed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Reed Murder Hornet Landlord (Independent) 4.5\/5 When it comes to recording music, there\u2019s only one question the artist needs to ask: does the final product accurately convey their thoughts and feelings about the subject they are trying to depict? Using the compelling sounds of hip hop, Lee Reed\u2019s new EP Murder Hornet Landlord provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19816,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814\/revisions\/19816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}