#Flatbush Zombies 3001: A Laced Odyssey

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: Meechy Darko Teams Up with Flatbush Zombies Bandmates and Col3trane on a Breezy Banger

New Audio: Meechy Darko Teams Up with Flatbush Zombies Bandmates and Col3trane on a Breezy Banger @MeechIsDEAD @FlatbushZombies @col3trane @LomaVistaRC @grandstandhq

Brooklyn-based hip-hop group Flatbush Zombies — Meechy Darko, Zombie Juice and Erick Arc Elliot — have been friends since grade school, initially bonding over their love of Dragon Ball Z and wrestling. As teenagers, they began experimenting with psychedelics, including psilocybin mushrooms and LSD. Flatbush Zombies’ Elliot had been making his own solo music, when he decided to bring the group…

[royalking3788]

I been rocking with Flatbush

[badbme]

I do not belong here.

I think they clipped my wings..

Uncertain, unstable, do I even exist?

[daydreamxart]

FLATBUSH ZOMBIES x THE NEW DAY

[0gz]

[jjaammaa-blog1]

[cudi3000]

“ This is rage Everytime I try to write this I ignite my fucking page If yo walk don’t match yo talk then we on a different page “

[bitchypersontheorist]

[moodymaudy]

FLATBUSH ZOMBIES and the acid rap

Flatbush Zombies is one of my favorite recent hiphop/acid rap bands. I think I discovered them in 2016 as I was falling in love with their album 3001: A Laced Odyssey. Obviously the title is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s a travel into reality, into space, into a distorted reality. It’s powerful, aggressive, soft… It’s a lot of things.

The Flatbush Zombies is a holy Trinity:

Erick the Architect -production and rapper, he makes great beats, adds lots of references into his beats, and manages to find a great balance between rhythm, airiness and strong beats.

Meechy Darko -rapper, renewed the way of rapping and developed his own style, with a deep and husky voice. He has a quite agressive and fluent flow.

Zombie Juice -rapper, very limpid, heart and soul flow, that dances. It works really well as Meechy’s flow counterpoint.

As we can guess after the name of their group, they come from Flatbush a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NYC. They’re East Coast rappers who worked really well on their image and offered something new.

They have a colorful look, tie and dye their hair, a peculiar and original style (psychedelic tie-dye t-shirts, pink furs, patterned suits…). A style that is definitely different from other East Coast rappers (like the A$AP Mob, or Joey Badass -who will be wearing more like plain suits, or obviously luxury brands, sometimes wearing diamonds and rings…).

They developed a very definite universe in between main rap themes (like weed -and drugs-, women, sex, success) and more unconventional themes (like new ways of feeling reality (not only through being high and day-to-day consumption of psychedelics but also in a spiritual way), death, ego death, reincarnation…).

On their webpage, they posted videos that they probably shot during their debuts entitled ‘HiGH Def’ -an obvious pound. You see them taking drugs, having fun, performing at concerts, working… it’s a montage of short clips.

If their consumption of marijuana is a leitmotive in their songs, acid is also a recurrent theme.

In some songs, Meechy Darko also shares the results of being on drugs ‘all the time’ and this his what he could call ego death. He also plays on his persona, as a crazy disturbed spiritual man.

“LSD drops in my iris, tire mark, police sirens

No guidance, the belly of the beast is where I reside in”, R.I.P.C.D

Zombie Juice even talks about one of his experience on acid for an animated webseries.

The music video clip also conveys this impression of flyness and distorted reality linked to psychedelic drugs. I believe their combination of music and flow also adds to that feeling, especially the fact that we can hear up to three voices, giving the listener many different experiences and could almost embody different states of being high.

They play with split-screens, camera movements that are more abrupt than in other music videos.

Here below the very simple music video of their song S.C.O.S.A, that is, in my opinion, one of their most violent and trap-like songs and music video (less acid). But in this one, you can have a very good example and avant-goût of the video effects they use in most of their videos.

I first wanted to analyze one of their songs or one of their music videos but it was too hard for me to make a choice. I hope that you’ve found this overview about The Flatbush Zombies interesting.

And I’ll end this post by saying that in my opinion acid rap isn’t only about a style of music nor beats, but it is to be also found in the style and the image they made for themselves.

[letsgetrippy]

𝕴 𝖉𝖔 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖌, 𝕴 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖐 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖈𝖑𝖎𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖉 𝖒𝖞 𝖜𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘

𝖀𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓, 𝖚𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊, 𝖉𝖔 𝕴 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖓 𝖊𝖝𝖎𝖘𝖙?

[timeismusic]

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Flatbush Zombies