{"id":566,"date":"2025-12-09T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/?p=566"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:47:04","slug":"ll-cool-j-new-york-new-york-2008-adi-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/2025\/12\/09\/ll-cool-j-new-york-new-york-2008-adi-f\/","title":{"rendered":"LL Cool J \u201cNew York, New York\u201d (2008)-Adi F"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LL Cool J - New York New York (Jay-Z Diss?)\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNlSiIZC1sw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the song about?<br>The song is about New York City and how strong, busy, and important the city is. LL Cool J talks about growing up there and how the city shaped him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Do you find any relevance with today?<br>Yes, because New York is still a fast and exciting place and people still face challenges and show pride in their city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>What are some of the NYC themes?<br>Themes include city pride, toughness, surviving hard times, and representing where you are from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>How do they drive home the beat?<br>The song uses a strong drum beat and a steady rhythm. LL Cool J raps in a way that matches the beat and makes the song catchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>What about the visuals? What choices do they make in the videos?<br>There is no video<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Where did the artists take their names from (if this applies)?<br>LL Cool J means Ladies Love Cool James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>What is sampling. What do they sample in the song your chose?<br>Sampling is taking a part of another song and using it in your own song. LL Cool J uses sounds that feel like classic New York hip hop beats, but he does not use a very obvious direct sample in this version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the song about?The song is about New York City and how strong, busy, and important the city is. LL Cool J talks about growing up there and how the city shaped him. Do you find any relevance with today?Yes, because New York is still a fast and exciting place and people still face&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/2025\/12\/09\/ll-cool-j-new-york-new-york-2008-adi-f\/#more-566\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/seminar-1-arts-in-new-york-fall-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}