{"id":1716,"date":"2015-02-10T17:50:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upperhandart.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2025-02-01T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T21:13:11","slug":"gza-album-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"GZA album art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0511.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0511-590x331.png\" alt=\"IMG_0511\" width=\"590\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0511-590x331.png 590w, https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0511-266x150.png 266w, https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0511-950x534.png 950w, https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_0511.png 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GZA_themexican_art-Brian_Butler.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GZA_themexican_art-Brian_Butler-590x590.jpg\" alt=\"GZA_themexican_art-Brian_Butler\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GZA_themexican_art-Brian_Butler-590x590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GZA_themexican_art-Brian_Butler-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GZA_themexican_art-Brian_Butler.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m super-stoked to have made this artwork for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealgza\">GZA<\/a>&#8216;s latest single &#8220;The Mexican&#8221;. The artwork captures the tension between GZA arriving in this OG Mexican town, laced up in his Tims, about to square-off with this Wild West villain type guy. All to hopefully win the affection of Las Fashionista on the right. <\/p>\n<p>Also the serial number on the top is a shout to the WU-36 Chambers and GZA-492 telephone numbers you punch to write GZA<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"The Mexican by GZA Genius\" width=\"840\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F190553184&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=840\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m super-stoked to have made this artwork for the GZA&#8216;s latest single &#8220;The Mexican&#8221;. The artwork captures the tension between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,599],"tags":[170,171,187,544],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collabs","category-music","tag-album-cover","tag-album-art","tag-gza","tag-tom-morello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upperhandart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}