{"id":116497,"date":"2021-01-06T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497//?p=116497"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:41:52","slug":"i-turned-my-love-for-hip-hop-into-my-dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497//i-turned-my-love-for-hip-hop-into-my-dream-job/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497//","title":{"rendered":"I Turned My Love for Hip-hop into My Dream Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

During our recent holiday break, my childhood friend Jeff Pecot gave me a cherished gift that we both grew up with, an Odyssey video game console./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497/n

Jeff and I had a routine during our middle school days in the early 80s. After we raced to the crib on our Schwinn bicycles, we did our homework and then played video games (football was the game of choice), and our favorite pastime was putting on the Sugar Hill Gang/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497/u2019s Rapper/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497/u2019s Delight./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497/n

My love for hip-hop, in part, is because it brings people together, something that America desperately needs at this time. In terms of the cool factor, few things are cooler than hip-hop music, culture, fashion and knowledge when the lyrics are conscious and irreverent. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497/u201cIt was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! Magazine,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497/u201d the late Notorious BIG smoothly spit in his opening verse of Juicy. It still ranks as one of the best songs of all time./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/116497/n