Flatbush Zombies

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Flatbush Zombies (stylized as Flatbush ZOMBiES) are an American rap 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 "The Architect" Elliott, the latter of which also serves as their regular producer. They are part of the East Coast hip hop movement known as "Beast Coast," which consists of fellow Brooklyn-based rappers The Underachievers and Pro Era.

The group grew in popularity through two mixtapes and music videos, leading to their first LP, 3001: A Laced Odyssey, in 2016.

History

Background

Friends since grade school, all three members were born and raised in Flatbush and are of Jamaican descent. One of the first things Meech and Juice bonded over was Dragon Ball Z. During their teenage years, they started dabbling in psychedelics such as psilocybin mushrooms and LSD. Juice and Issa Gold of The Underachievers specifically starting looking into the indigo lifestyle. Meech said the first time doing mushrooms his ego died and had a sort of rebirth of conscience, hence him now being a "zombie."

Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, where a zombie is a dead body reanimated through various methods, most commonly magic. Modern depictions of zombies do not necessarily involve magic but often invoke science fictional methods such as radiation or viruses.

The English word "zombie" is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi". The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as West African, and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi (god) and zumbi (fetish).

One of the first books to expose Western culture to the concept of the voodoo zombie was The Magic Island by W.B. Seabrook in 1929. This is the sensationalized account of a narrator who encounters voodoo cults in Haiti and their resurrected thralls. Time claimed that the book "introduced 'zombi' into U.S. speech".

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Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song. Tie ins and merchandising could be used in toys are marketing campaigns for food and other products. Although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip". Since the creation and increased popularity of YouTube, mainstream artists now promote new music videos by releasing trailers of short promos on the site for their upcoming song and music video. Consequentially, YouTube has been converted into a social media platform for celebrities and artists to market themselves to their fans and audiences.