MC ZULU:
Works On Planet Laser Bass, But He Lives Right Here (Excerpts) Miles Raymer
MC Zulu talks the way you want a dancehall rapper to talk.
Whether he's toasting over cut-up dubstep beats or answering your dumbest questions in a booth at the Rainbo, his deep growl has such a distinctively Caribbean lilt that you keep expecting him to slip into patois—he reminds me of modern reggae lions like Bounty Killer and Shabba Ranks.
But Zulu, real name Dominique Rowland, just has the accent, not the vocabulary—he spent his early childhood in Panama and moved to Chicago when he was nine.
He started making beats in the early 90s, first producing house tracks for local DJs, then branching out into hip-hop.
He's been rapping just as long, but after a few open mikes he decided he'd rather sharpen his skills as a dancehall deejay—the preferred term in much of the Caribbean for what's called an MC in American hip-hop—out of the public eye.
He didn't emerge again till the end of the decade, and since then—though still stuck in the untropical midwest and barely recognized in Chicago—he's become a respected figure in a small but significant dance-music scene with global reach ...Full Article
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