{"id":46234,"date":"2017-05-12T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=46234"},"modified":"2017-05-12T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T06:44:09","slug":"singer-john-pen-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/05\/12\/singer-john-pen-resurfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer John Pen resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician John Pen has resurfaced with a music video \u2018Taxi-Man.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This is second video the artist is releasing this year off his 2016 album <em>Warlord. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In February this year, Pen released another video \u2018Freedom.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Taxi-Man\u2019, video has been directed by Platinum and audio was produced by South Africa-based dancehall artist, Lipy G.<\/p>\n<p>A syrupy melody with pure touch of ingenuity, the song endears the pain of a man overburdened by taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The song highlights the pain human beings have to go through in life just to satisfy the insatiable appetite of the state by overtaxing its citizenry.<\/p>\n<p>Pen is musician who fuses hip-hop, club, dub-reggae, afro pop, acoustic and experimental styles.<\/p>\n<p>The artist is currently working on his Searching album project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in the process of gathering material for that album project. Music lovers should expect world class compositions with poetic lyrics,\u201d Pen said.<\/p>\n<p>The musician who draws inspiration from the likes of Tracy Chapman, Bob Marley and Mutabaruka is signed under USA and UK labels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician John Pen has resurfaced with a music video \u2018Taxi-Man.\u2019 This is second video the artist is releasing this year off his 2016 album Warlord. In February this year, Pen released another video \u2018Freedom.\u2019 The \u2018Taxi-Man\u2019, video has been directed by Platinum and audio was produced by South Africa-based dancehall artist, Lipy G. A syrupy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46239,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234\/revisions\/46239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}