{"id":638,"date":"2022-04-13T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2022\/04\/young-zee-x-flu-scumbag\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T00:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:36:16","slug":"young-zee-x-flu-scumbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2022\/04\/young-zee-x-flu-scumbag\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cScumbag\u201d Young Zee X Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From a feature on the diamond selling Fugees\u2019 classic The Score<\/em>, to a shelved album on Shady records, Young Zee has risen from the New Jerz underground to a humbling from the innate savagery of the music industry. As a Founding member of the Outsidaz<\/strong>, Young Zee saw those successes and trappings more than 20 years ago. After a long hiatus involving some legal dealings, Zee returns reinvigorated on his first official release since his 2012 album with Mr. Green, One Crazy Weekend<\/em>. <\/p>\n

On Scumbag<\/em>, Young Zee partners with Australian producer Flu<\/strong> for an EP of witty bars over focused beats. With features from veterans such as fellow Outsidaz<\/strong> member Pace Won<\/strong>, Zee calls on other stalwarts like underground heavy Vinnie Paz<\/strong>, emcee R.<\/strong>, as well as the highly-respected Flipmode queen, Rah Digga<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Throughout the EP, Melbourne-based producer, Flu<\/strong> brings his brand of moody film score loops and obscure arrangements for Zee to flourish on. Flu provides the eerie tension of a crime scene on \u201cMonkey Bars<\/span>\u201d and a hazy fog of grime on the title track where Zee aptly spits some pure filth over. Flu utilizes some great drums on tracks like \u201cSTFU<\/span>\u201d while allowing others to breathe a bit more like the strings-fueled \u201cDNA<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/at24tK1hqEw<\/a><\/p>\n

Across 7 tracks, Zee hits you with his off-the-wall, boundary-pushing flows, finding his comfort zone in his humorous bars and playfully extreme content. The only real departure from this, we find a more serious Zee with his thought-provoking storytelling of generations of slavery and racism on \u201cSlave Son<\/span>.\u201d Here Flu provides a bleak soundscape for Young Zee to speak on real issues.<\/p>\n

A pairing of these 2 unique individuals offers us a tight project embodying the grubbiness and those foul emanations from their combined abhorrent tastes, genuinely earning the title Scumbag<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Preorder vinyl and exclusive limited physicals here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/handtohandrecords.bigcartel.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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