{"id":8176,"date":"2026-07-24T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/krs-one-the-real-negus\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:42:21","slug":"krs-one-the-real-negus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/krs-one-the-real-negus\/","title":{"rendered":"KRS One the real Negus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Tf8Gvqaec4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>KRS One the real Negus<\/p>\n<p>============<br \/>\nNegus<br \/>\n============<br \/>\ntitle of the ruler of Abyssinia, 1590s, from Amharic (Semitic) negush &quot;king,&quot; from stem of nagasha &quot;he forced, ruled.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Also attested by 1738 as the name of a hot punch; in this sense it is of uncertain origin. Often said to be named for Whig politician Francis Negus (1670\u20131732). But this etymology, repeated in OED, dates only from early 19c. and is likely apocryphal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KRS One the real Negus ============ Negus ============ title of the ruler of Abyssinia, 1590s, from Amharic (Semitic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-woke-now"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hqdefault-277.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}