{"id":14651,"date":"2019-03-05T19:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=14651"},"modified":"2019-05-11T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:18:19","slug":"kamaal-williams-unveils-film-for-new-heights-visions-of-aisha-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=14651","title":{"rendered":"Kamaal Williams unveils film for &#8216;New Heights (Visions of Aisha Malik)&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14654\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kamaal-Williams-New-Heights-Visions-of-Aisha-Malik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1232\" height=\"523\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kamaalwilliamsofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamaal Williams<\/a> aka Henry Wu released <em>The Return<\/em> last year, the first album under his own name and one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=14443\">Picks of 2018<\/a>. The record was followed up in December with a 12-inch release, \u2018New Heights (Visions of Aisha Malik) \/ Snitches Brew\u2019, and its first track has now been paired up with an accompanying film. Williams had this to say about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201c2019 is all about making movies; Bruce Lee was a huge inspiration growing up because he was the first Chinese guy on the big screen. I feel like music and martial arts have the same flow of energy and are respective art forms. So why not bring Wu Funk and Kung Fu together?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film was directed by Greg Barnes and stars Chris Tang and Jayson Wynters. Here it is.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jR1RW_9LV1Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;New Heights (Visions of Aisha Malik) \/ Snitches Brew\u2019 is out now through <a href=\"https:\/\/blackfocusrecords.bandcamp.com\/?fbclid=IwAR1Hs8rDRNz8hy79z--TOP2Nz8ePudwViRQIty7g5iSZsiMOwbhXhg1rdiU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Focus Records<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamaal Williams aka Henry Wu released The Return last year, the first album under his own name and one of our Picks of 2018. The record was followed up in December with a 12-inch release, \u2018New Heights (Visions of Aisha Malik) \/ Snitches Brew\u2019, and its first track has now been paired up with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1881],"class_list":["post-14651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-kamaal-williams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14888,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14651\/revisions\/14888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}