{"id":560,"date":"2009-09-17T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:03:47","slug":"jay-z-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/jay-z-rhapsody\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z&#8217;s Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As rap artist Jay-Z passes a new milestone, originally held by Elvis Presley with 10 American number one albums on the Billboard 200, you may have seen him in a commercial for Rhapsody, a music download site from RealNetworks. The ad recreates ten of his album covers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jay-Z Rhapsody Commercial HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iM1mPXJ95vc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In order of appearance, here are the albums being shot in a seemingly-seamless edit:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jay-z.jpg\" alt=\"jay-z\" title=\"Jay-Z's Album Covers. Photo illustration by FWDlabs.com.\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jay-z.jpg 620w, https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jay-z-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Campaign: Droga5, New York<br \/>\nDirected: Anthony Mandler via Les Enfants Terrible (LET)<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Jonathan Sela<br \/>\nExecutive producer Ciarra Pardo<br \/>\nPost Production: Ghost Town Media<br \/>\nEditor: Ryan Treese Bartley<br \/>\nVFX: Brandon Parvini<br \/>\nPost Producer: Matthew Primm<br \/>\nAudio Post Production: Nylon Studios, New York<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/jaeminyi.com\/\">Jaemin Yi<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As rap artist Jay-Z passes a new milestone, originally held by Elvis Presley with 10 American number one albums on the Billboard 200, you may have seen him in a commercial for Rhapsody, a music download site from RealNetworks. The ad recreates ten of his album covers. In order of appearance, here are the albums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}