{"id":202798,"date":"2025-07-19T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cic-drops-new-album-titled-local-champion\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:21:49","slug":"liberia-cic-drops-new-album-titled-local-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cic-drops-new-album-titled-local-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: CIC Drops New Album Titled &#8216;Local Champion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Local Champion is the highly anticipated body of work from Liberia&#8217;s biggest musical export, Cralorboi CIC &#8212; a decade-defining album that marks 10 years of an unmatched career in the Liberian music industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">From his early rise in the streets of Monrovia to becoming a household name and cultural icon, CIC has consistently delivered timeless music that speaks to the heart of the people. Local Champion is both a celebration and a statement &#8212; a celebration of how far he&#8217;s come, and a bold&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180310.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Champion is the highly anticipated body of work from Liberia&#8217;s biggest musical export, Cralorboi CIC &#8212; a decade-defining album that marks 10 years of an unmatched career in the Liberian music industry. From his early rise in the streets of Monrovia to becoming a household name and cultural icon, CIC has consistently delivered timeless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6542,6733,21023,6520,4712,1107,7823,257,254,9075],"class_list":["post-202798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-album","tag-champion","tag-cic","tag-drops","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-titled"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}