{"id":3489,"date":"2014-04-27T08:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T07:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2014-04-27T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T07:38:53","slug":"sunday-sounds-rip-dj-rashad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/sunday-sounds-rip-dj-rashad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sounds: RIP DJ Rashad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dj_spinn_dj_rashad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dj_spinn_dj_rashad.jpg\" alt=\"RIP DJ Rashad\" width=\"620\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dj_spinn_dj_rashad.jpg 620w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dj_spinn_dj_rashad-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sad news this morning, as it has been announced that pioneering <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/sunday-sounds-chicago-juke-footwork\/\">Chicago footwork<\/a> dj\/producer DJ Rashad has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2014\/04\/26\/r-i-p-footwork-pioneer-dj-rashad\/\">passed away<\/a> at his Chicago home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chicago footwork pioneer DJ Rashad has died. While an official statement has not yet been issued, the news was broken and confirmed by Rashad\u2019s close friends, including DJ Godfather and Chance the Rapper. Rashad, who was 35, was due to perform tonight with DJ Godfather and another longtime collaborator, DJ Spinna, at Detroit\u2019s Inhale Art Expo.<\/p>\n<p>Update: The Chicago Sun-Times reports that DJ Rashad was found dead by a friend in a West Side apartment early Saturday afternoon and pronounced dead at the scene shortly after. An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday. A drug overdose is suspected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice tribute from Om Unit:<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p> <script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/omunit\/posts\/10152321758356387\" data-width=\"466\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/omunit\/posts\/10152321758356387\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/omunit\">Om Unit<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whenever a musician passes away, I think that it&#8217;s always best as a fan to remember them through their music, so here are a few of my favorite tunes and mixes of his:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/31654733&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DJ Rashad &#8211; We On 1<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/108388765&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/71765048&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TRG &#8211; Broken Heart (Martyn&#8217;s DCM Remix &#8211; DJ Rashad Teklife Edit)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/107493742&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DJ Rashad &#8211; Every Day of My Life<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/137866028&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DJ Rashad x DJ Spinn x Taso &#8211; Lucchini VIP<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/49449936&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DJ Rashad &#8211; 45 Fifty Four<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago footwork\/juke music pioneer DJ Rashad has passed away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-sunday-sounds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}