Flatbush Zombies
Flatbush
Zombies is an American hip hop group from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New
York City, formed in 2010. The group is composed of rappers Meechy Darko,
Zombie Juice and Erick Arc Elliott, with Elliott also serving as their regular
record producer. The trio are part of the East Coast hip hop movement known as
"Beast Coast", which also consists of fellow Brooklyn-based rap
groups The Underachievers and Pro Era.
Flatbush
Zombies have collaborated with various artists, including RZA, ASAP Mob,
Z-Breezy, Jim Jones, Juicy J, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Mr. Muthafuckin
eXquire, and Anthony Flammia among others. They have performed at music
festivals such as The Hudson Project, JMBLYA, Coachella Valley Music and Arts
Festival, Pemberton Music Festival, Afropunk Festival, Olly Mac Sesh, Paid
Dues, North Coast Music Festival, SXSW, Roskilde, Rolling Loud in Miami and
most recently Wireless in London. The group grew in popularity through two
mixtapes and several music videos, leading to their debut studio album, 3001: A
Laced Odyssey, in 2016.
Friends
since grade school, all three members were born and raised in the Flatbush
section of Brooklyn, New York City and are of Jamaican descent. One of the
first things Dimitri Simms (Meechy Darko), Antonio Lewis (Zombie Juice) and
Erick Elliott (The Architect) bonded over was the Japanese anime Dragon Ball Z
and wrestling. During their teenage years, they began experimenting with
psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin mushrooms and LSD. Zombie Juice, along
with fellow Flatbush native Issa Gold of The Underachievers, specifically
started looking into the indigo lifestyle. Meechy Darko said the first time
doing mushrooms his ego died and had a sort of rebirth of conscience.
On
February 13, 2014, Flatbush Zombies released a new song, "LiT".
Flatbush Zombies revealed to XXL that their extended play (EP), It's All a
Matter of Perspective, had been scrapped. Instead the group told XXL to
"expect an album this year."
In
September 2014, it was announced that Flatbush Zombies would be touring with
fellow Brooklyn-based rap group The Underachievers, and they would be
collectively known as Clockwork Indigo. The two groups subsequently released a
collaborative song titled "Butterfly Effect," followed by an EP
titled Clockwork Indigo, on October 17, 2014. They claim that they came up with
the idea of forming Clockwork Indigo, from a "strange LSD trip while watching
A Clockwork Orange". During the Clockwork Indigo concert tour, the group
collectively wore white clothing as did Alex's gang in the film A Clockwork
Orange.
On
March 15, 2015, Flatbush Zombies released a new single on SoundCloud titled
"Red Eye to Paris" featuring UK Grime artist Skepta. On September 11,
2015 at 9:11 pm EST, the group released a new single and socially charged music
video on YouTube titled "Blacktivist".
On
January 11, 2016, the group released the single "Glorious Thugs". On
the same day, the group announced that their debut album titled 3001: A Laced
Odyssey, would be released March 11, 2016. On February 5, 2016, they released
the first single from 3001: A Laced Odyssey titled "Bounce", followed
by the official music video on February 8. On March 10, 2016, Flatbush Zombies
released the second single from the album, titled "This Is It". The
following day, they released the album. 3001: A Laced Odyssey received
generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized
rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score
of 80, based on 7 reviews. The album sold 28,000 copies in the first week,
debuting at number 10 on the US Billboard 200 chart.
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