{"id":3456,"date":"2013-08-15T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/08\/15\/the-doors-drummer-john-densmore-says-jay-z-sent-him-letter-letter-explaining-hip-hop\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:44:43","slug":"the-doors-drummer-john-densmore-says-jay-z-sent-him-letter-letter-explaining-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/08\/15\/the-doors-drummer-john-densmore-says-jay-z-sent-him-letter-letter-explaining-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doors&#8217; drummer John Densmore says Jay Z sent him letter letter explaining hip-hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/60\/Doors_electra_publicity_photo.JPG\/250px-Doors_electra_publicity_photo.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"126\" \/><br \/>The Doors&#8217; drummer John Densmore has revealed that Jay Z once sent him a letter explaining hip-hop.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p> Speaking to HuffPo Live, Densmore said that he had been left perplexed by the genre and had not understood its appeal after Jay Z sampled The Doors&#8217; track &#8216;Five To One&#8217; for his 2001 album &#8216;The Blueprint&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Hip-hop was just coming on, and I was like, &#8216;What is this stuff? There&#8217;s no melody,'&#8221; recalled Densmore. &#8220;I was a curmudgeon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was then sent a letter explaining rap music by Jay Z himself &#8211; as well as a Def Jam t-shirt. Densmore added: &#8220;Jay Z wrote me a letter saying, &#8216;Hey, we&#8217;re fighting the authority just like you guys did back then.'&#8221; The drummer also said that he subsequently turned to Jay Z for help when writing his tome The Doors: Unhinged, as he had inspired by the way the rapper spoke about fame in his own book Decoded and wanted to quote some of his lyrics. &#8220;I took a photo of me in this T-shirt, which I saved,,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And sent it to him and said, &#8216;Hey, would you give me some of these words?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doors&#8217; drummer John Densmore has revealed that Jay Z once sent him a letter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}