{"id":540685,"date":"2010-04-22T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20133ecdef496970b"},"modified":"2010-04-22T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:56:55","slug":"biz-markie-reworks-just-a-friend-as-an-enviro-rap-for-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/540685","title":{"rendered":"Biz Markie reworks &#8216;Just a Friend&#8217; as an enviro-rap for Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kAE8Zl27rWA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kAE8Zl27rWA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already been used as an ode to partying, and responsibly taking a cab with your sloshed friends, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2009\/04\/heinekens-cabbie-the-first-ever-to-enjoy-a-carload-of-singing-kids.html\">in a Heineken commercial<\/a>. Now, the old-school rap classic &quot;Just a Friend&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/cpaf.repoweramerica.org\/page\/invite\/earthdayremix\" >gets an Earth Day makeover<\/a> from its creator, DJ Biz Markie, and a bunch of lip-synching, enviro-friendly folks (and one cat!). The effort comes from Repower America, a non-profit group that lobbies for clean-energy legislation. The reworking might be a little strained, but its heart sure is in the right place. Come on, everybody, sing along! &quot;Cuz we need clean energy\/Cuz we need clean energy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already been used as an ode to partying, and responsibly taking a cab with your sloshed friends, in a Heineken commercial. Now, the old-school rap classic &quot;Just a Friend&quot; gets an Earth Day makeover from its creator, DJ Biz Markie, and a bunch of lip-synching, enviro-friendly folks (and one cat!). The effort comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}