{"id":10788,"date":"2014-04-03T01:11:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T08:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/?p=10788"},"modified":"2016-08-26T15:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T09:33:22","slug":"lazarus-first-desi-hip-hop-artists-rock-sxsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/lazarus-first-desi-hip-hop-artists-rock-sxsw\/200111","title":{"rendered":"Lazarus, the first Desi Hip Hop artists to rock SXSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DesiHipHop\/photos\/pb.243852458976898.-2207520000.1396512497.\/784300634932075\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">we posted about Lazarus&#8217; c<\/a>onquests at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SXSW<\/a>. A DesiHipHop.com staff videographer even got a chance to see him in action and record some\u00a0<em>dope\u00a0<\/em>footage from the festival.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Exclusive Photos from SXSW<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10788 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/LAZARUS_SXSW4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/LAZARUS_SXSW4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/LAZARUS_SXSW4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/LAZARUS_SXSW4-100x100.jpg 100w, 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class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lazarus_sxsw3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lazarus_sxsw3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lazarus_sxsw3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lazarus_sxsw3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lazarus_sxsw3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lazarus_sxsw3-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/lazarus_sxsw3-230x230.jpg 230w, 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His dope freestyle to introduce himself took the audience by surprise. I don&#8217;t think that Austin, TX, crowd at<strong> &#8216;South by South West&#8217;<\/strong> ever heard such real lyrics from a <strong>Desi rapper<\/strong> in their lives. Lazarus, the doctor &amp; the rapper, took the stage with his most well known singles &#8211; from <strong>&#8216;Copycat&#8217;<\/strong> to his song with <strong>D12<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/2014\/02\/lazarus-feat-d12-lay-the-law-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lay the Law Down&#8221;<\/a>. Lazarus took the opportunity to hang out with<strong> HOT97&#8242;<\/strong>s world famous DJ &#8211; Peter Rosenburg, and also hung out with some of the Hip Hop greats.<\/p>\n<p>The man made himself and Desi Hip Hop proud this year at SXSW &#8211; which is, in fact, the longest running music festival in the world! This festival is well known for having some of the dopest acts in the world. That&#8217;s tight, and so is the video below, check it out to see Lazarus perform and turn up in Austin, TX, at this year&#8217;s SXSW 2014.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Exclusive Performance Video by Lazarus at SXSW<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZswqJfHKvM\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in March, we posted about Lazarus&#8217; conquests at SXSW. A DesiHipHop.com staff videographer even got a chance to see him in action and record some\u00a0dope\u00a0footage from the festival. Exclusive Photos from SXSW Lazarus was introduced by WWE Champ &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6375],"tags":[251,7933,8630],"class_list":["post-10788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop-news","tag-lazarus","tag-spotlight","tag-sxsw"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}