{"id":20144,"date":"2019-03-26T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20144"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:46:54","slug":"genre-defying-rapper-mahawam-grapples-with-an-hiv-diagnosis-on-their-new-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/genre-defying-rapper-mahawam-grapples-with-an-hiv-diagnosis-on-their-new-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Genre-Defying Rapper Mahawam Grapples With an HIV Diagnosis on Their New EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostMinisite-___PostMinisite__mpost_Column\">\n<div class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostStandardImage-___PostStandardImage__postImage_featImg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/mahawam-2-1020x574.jpg\" width=\"804\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostStandardImage-___PostStandardImage__postImage_FeaturedImgCaption\">Mahawam<cite class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-components-Post-components-PostStandardImage-___PostStandardImage__postImage_FeaturedImgCaption_Credit\">\u00a0(Guerrilla Davis)<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mahawam.bandcamp.com\/album\/is-an-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mahawam<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Is an Island<\/em> EP (out March 29 on Molly House Records) emerged from a period when the artist wanted to disappear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had just received my [HIV] positive diagnosis, and I wasn&#8217;t really sure how to talk about it with my friends,&#8221; the rapper and multi-instrumentalist, whose real name is Malik Mays, recalls stoically over coffee on a sunny morning in Oakland. &#8220;I started to withdraw into myself. I stopped going to parties. I stopped DJing for a bit. People didn&#8217;t see me, and nobody really asked.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/13853543\/genre-defying-rapper-mahawam-grapples-with-an-hiv-diagnosis-on-their-new-ep\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Mahawam\u00a0(Guerrilla Davis) Mahawam&#8216;s Is an Island EP (out March 29 on Molly House Records) emerged from a period when the artist wanted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}