{"id":167,"date":"2008-07-14T20:25:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/blog\/2008\/nobody-wants-to-hear-how-lloyd-does-it"},"modified":"2008-07-14T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T04:30:32","slug":"nobody-wants-to-hear-how-lloyd-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/blog\/2008\/nobody-wants-to-hear-how-lloyd-does-it","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Wants to Hear How Lloyd Does It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flickr-frame\" style=\"padding-bottom: 1em;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mlaaker\/2669599663\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3115\/2669599663_7aa03f166f.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mlaaker\/2669599663\/\">Nobody Wants to Hear Lloyd<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/mlaaker\/\">mlaaker<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shortly before I left the halls of Island Def Jam to come to Yahoo!, the company began promoting little-known Atlanta artist Lloyd on their Murder Inc. sub-label. After one spin, I smelled a stinker, and said so. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, no, no. Lloyd&#8217;s gonna be hot,&#8221; I heard.<\/p>\n<p>Today, at a corporate office&#8217;s coffee bar in Silicon Valley, what did I see? A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=0713m611l-20&#038;index=digital-music&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;keywords=lloyd%20how%20we%20do%20it\">Lloyd &#8220;How We Do It&#8221; CD<\/a>&#8230; offered not as a Lloyd CD, but rather (and rather mockingly at that) as a drink coaster. <\/p>\n<p>It feels good being right every now and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody Wants to Hear Lloyd, originally uploaded by mlaaker. Shortly before I left the halls of Island Def Jam to come to Yahoo!, the company began promoting little-known Atlanta artist Lloyd on their Murder Inc. sub-label. After one spin, I smelled a stinker, and said so. &#8220;No, no, no. Lloyd&#8217;s gonna be hot,&#8221; I heard. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,155,357,17,21],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-cd","tag-def-jam","tag-lloyd","tag-music","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}