No one knows themself better than ZelooperZ, the Detroit MC who’s spent the past few years carving a path into uncharted hip-hop territory, deviating even further left than his early mentor, Danny Brown.
Emphatically strange, with an erratic flow that can snap from a whisper to a scream in a fraction of a second, the stick-thin, 6’7” 30-year-old (as of this past Saturday) seems supremely comfortable in his own skin, despite standing out immediately in any room he enters.
After rearing his head in March with a surprise album titled Microphone Fiend, ZelooperZ has returned today as the featured rapper on a new single from the Palermo, Italy-based sound artist Shapednoise’s forthcoming album, Absurd Matter.
Following the Armand Hammer-featuring “Family” (a mid-May Song You Need) as the project’s second offering, “Know Yourself” is co-produced by the Atlanta-obsessed, French beatmaker Brodinski.
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