{"id":9545,"date":"2025-11-04T20:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/?p=9545"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:33:13","slug":"albee-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/albee-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Albee Al, the Jersey City gladiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally from Jersey City (NJ), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/tag\/albee-al\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"2336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Albee Al<\/a><\/strong>, strikes again and marks a remarkable comeback after several years of incarceration. Present everywhere lately, he confirms that he has lost none of his intensity. His difficult past has forged his style. The one they call <strong><em>The<\/em> <em>Gladiator<\/em><\/strong> transforms his hardships into musical strength:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>&quot; <em>The music I&#039;m giving them is for the streets, but it will also wake motherfuckers up about how people in jail feel.&nbsp;<\/em>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>His music speaks as much to those who live on the streets as to those who observe them from afar. Respected by his peers, <strong>Albee Al <\/strong>doesn't follow trends, he tells his truth.<br>His new music video <strong><em>We On That<\/em><\/strong> is proof: a powerful performance where he confidently asserts his place. As he himself sums it up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&quot; <em>Everything I&#039;m dropping are classics\u2026 I&#039;m back and about to take everything back over.&nbsp;<\/em>\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/6fmSsRvvca423KnYLKabTd?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Add <strong>Magazine Hip-Hop<\/strong> in your playlist on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/31sl3hw6ceb7jzzxpra6epg2eiha?si=f3ff66ed984a459b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/underground-network\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Banniere-article-Reseau-social-Hip-Hop-1024x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Banniere-article-Reseau-social-Hip-Hop-1024x169.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Banniere-article-Reseau-social-Hip-Hop-300x50.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Banniere-article-Reseau-social-Hip-Hop-768x127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Banniere-article-Reseau-social-Hip-Hop-1536x254.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Banniere-article-Reseau-social-Hip-Hop-2048x338.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Banniere-article-Reseau-social-Hip-Hop-18x3.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albee Al makes a remarkable comeback after several years of incarceration.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[679,2336,670,2337,678,606,1128,330],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-actualites","tag-albee-al","tag-hip-hop","tag-jersey-city","tag-journal","tag-magazine-hip-hop","tag-media","tag-rap"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10729,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions\/10729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magazinehiphop.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}