{"id":1242,"date":"2011-10-26T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2012-08-16T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:48:13","slug":"um-mc-yogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/10\/um-mc-yogi\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, &#8220;MC Yogi&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home late at night, I was flipping through the radio stations at the low end of the dial, and happened to hear an interview with a yoga teacher who calls himself &#8220;MC Yogi,&#8221; and who has issued a yogi hip hop album called &#8220;Elephant Power&#8221; (after Ganesh, natch). Here&#8217;s a video &#8220;MC Yogi&#8221; has released on Youtube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"246\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rpVUih5nY9g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a way, it&#8217;s kind of fun that someone is using hip hop as a medium to talk about Hindu gods and goddesses. But it also makes me uncomfortable. If you check out some of the live videos of MC Yogi on Youtube, you&#8217;ll see a bunch of fit white people in expensive yoga togs shaking their yoga bodies at a retreat center somewhere far from the inner city predominantly black neighborhoods where hip hop was born. That cultural dissonance makes me pause; then throw in comic-book stories about Haruman and Ganesh, and I&#8217;m beyond pausing and into discomfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home late at night, I was flipping through the radio stations at the low end of the dial, and happened to hear an interview with a yoga teacher who calls himself &#8220;MC Yogi,&#8221; and who has issued a yogi hip hop album called &#8220;Elephant Power&#8221; (after Ganesh, natch). Here&#8217;s a video &#8220;MC Yogi&#8221; has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/10\/um-mc-yogi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Um, &#8220;MC Yogi&#8221;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,36],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","category-pop-culture","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}