{"id":791357,"date":"2018-12-17T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=770058"},"modified":"2018-12-17T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:14:14","slug":"watch-nas-play-ancient-egyptian-pharaoh-in-new-black-eyed-peas-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-nas-play-ancient-egyptian-pharaoh-in-new-black-eyed-peas-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Nas Play Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh in New Black Eyed Peas Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-17-at-3.11.05-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/black-eyed-peas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-eyed-peas\" data-tag=\"black-eyed-peas\">Black Eyed Peas<\/a> go to ancient Egypt in the new video for \u201cBACK 2 HIPHOP,\u201d which features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nas\" data-tag=\"nas\">Nas<\/a> as a gilded pharaoh. In the stylized, trippy clip, the musicians unleash the verses in the desert and in front of the pyramids of Giza \u2013 one of which is actually a spaceship.\u00a0The motion graphic video was directed by\u00a0Pasha Shapiro and the Egypt-outer-space theme was a concept by Peas\u2019 mastermind Will.i.am.<\/p>\n<p>The song comes off Black Eyed Peas\u2019 seventh album\u00a0<em>MASTERS OF THE SUN VOL. 1<\/em>, which dropped in November. The album cover features pyramid imagery in black and white along with the band members\u2019 faces. Nas is one of several guest appearances on the album, which also features Slick Rick,\u00a0Nicole Scherzinger and CL.<\/p>\n<p>Black Eyed Peas will perform\u00a0<span>\u201cBACK 2 HIPHOP\u201d live on <em>The Late Late Show with James Corden<\/em> on Wednesday, December 19th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-black-eyed-peas-nas-back-2-hiphop-770058\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Eyed Peas go to ancient Egypt in the new video for \u201cBACK 2 HIPHOP,\u201d which features Nas as a gilded pharaoh. In the stylized, trippy clip, the musicians unleash the verses in the desert and in front of the pyramids of Giza \u2013 one of which is actually a spaceship.\u00a0The motion graphic video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:35:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}