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Zion I
Also Playing: The Grouch
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Fri May 7
8:30 pm
Zion I and The Grouch at Fox Theatre
Oakland hip-hop duo Zion I has grown increasingly comfortable mixing and matching sounds and attitudes from across the underground rap spectrum over the decade. MC Zumbi and producer AmpLive make that especially clear from track to track on 2009’s studio album The Take Over. AmpLive throws everything into it from tribal-sounding drum samples to distorted basslines to acoustic guitar to New Orleans jazz, and Zumbi’s flow ranges from light and nimble (“Radio”) to an assertive swagger (“TakeOver”). Not to mention how cool it is when a righteous Brother Ali (“Caged Bird Part 1”) and an ass-worshipping Devin The Dude (“Country Baked Yams”) somehow guest-rap on the same disc, and both sound perfectly at home in their respective spots.
Fox Theatre 1135 13th St, Denver/Boulder, CO
Oakland hip-hop duo Zion I has grown increasingly comfortable mixing and matching sounds and attitudes from across the underground rap spectrum over the decade. MC Zumbi and producer AmpLive make that especially clear from track to track on 2009’s studio album The Take Over. AmpLive throws everything into it from tribal-sounding drum samples to distorted basslines to acoustic guitar to New Orleans jazz, and Zumbi’s flow ranges from light and nimble (“Radio”) to an assertive swagger (“TakeOver”). Not to mention how cool it is when a righteous Brother Ali (“Caged Bird Part 1”) and an ass-worshipping Devin The Dude (“Country Baked Yams”) somehow guest-rap on the same disc, and both sound perfectly at home in their respective spots.
Updated 04/12/2012
