{"id":37554,"date":"2018-06-25T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=37554"},"modified":"2018-06-25T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:45:32","slug":"eli-michael-m-i-l-k-a-n-d-h-o-n-e-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/eli-michael-m-i-l-k-a-n-d-h-o-n-e-y\/","title":{"rendered":"ELI MICHAEL  &#8211; &#8216;M I L K A N D H O N E Y&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37556\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/06\/eli-michael-m-i-l-k-a-n-d-h-o-n-e-y\/milkandhoney\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/milkandhoney.png?fit=994%2C992&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"994,992\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"milkandhoney\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/milkandhoney.png?fit=640%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37556\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/milkandhoney.png?resize=640%2C639&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Eli Michael, from Mansfield, Louisiana, is a prolific producer of hip hop. His latest track, &#8216;M I L K A N D H O N E Y&#8217;, released yesterday, is a freestyling rhyme with an ethereal backing track.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The beat is a heart-beat paced rhythm, keeping time with the Eli&#8217;s double-shot of rhymes. He&#8217;s on the rise &#8211; the lyrics are upbeat in the first half and then they change to a more contemplative rhyming hook about halfway through &#8211; &#8220;I could not give up, I could not back down&#8221; &#8211; before returning to the double of the first half.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follow Eli Michael on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elimichael1k\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/1k.elimichael\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/1elimichael\/m-i-l-k-a-n-d-h-o-n-e-y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Michael, from Mansfield, Louisiana, is a prolific producer of hip hop. His latest track, &#8216;M I L K A N D H O&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,9],"tags":[15175,1870,15176,77,370,666],"class_list":["post-37554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","category-new-releases","tag-eli-michael","tag-hip-hop","tag-m-i-l-k-a-n-d-h-o-n-e-y","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-rap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-9LI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58829,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/01\/eli-seeney-announces-its-a-new-day-with-debut-album\/","url_meta":{"origin":37554,"position":0},"title":"Eli Seeney Announces It&#8217;s A &#8216;New Day&#8217; With Debut Album","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"08\/01\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"New Jersey Hip-Hop artist Eli Seeney has officially announced his return to the fray, bringing a signature sound to fans with the release of his long-awaited debut, entitled New Day: The Album. 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