
Flatbush Zombies have joined forces with James Blake on new track ‘Afterlife’
It comes complete with an x-ray sized music video shot before lockdown
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Meechy Darko and Zombie Juice trade verses over a production from Harry Fraud that pairs guitar and bassline into something deliberately unsettling. The track moves with a back-and-forth intensity, the two rappers adopting the register of infernal reportage: threats, boasts, and imagery drawn from horror and excess. Darko's delivery is particularly sharp, moving between menace and something closer to philosophical dread. The production does the heavy lifting. Fraud's arrangement has a chilling quality, the instrumentation lean enough to let the vocals sit at the centre without clutter. The verses build on a simple principle: two voices, competing for space, neither willing to cede ground. It's effective as spectacle and as rap, the tribal quality of the vocal arrangement matching the lyrical commitment to a particular aesthetic.
"LiveFromHell" is a track by Flatbush Zombies, from the album BetterOffDead, released 11th September 2013. Full lyrics are available below.
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