Elzhi Interview: Detroit Rapper, Former Member of Slum Village | Ep. 76

This week we’re joined by one of our favourite MCs in the game - Detroit legend and former member of Slum Village, Elzhi is in the house 🔥 Talking on his storied solo career as well as working with the likes of J Dilla and Kanye West, while touching on…

- Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (01:14)
- Starting rhyming at the age of eight...and drops the first bars he ever wrote (01:50)
- How Rakim blew his mind (04:45)
- Making ‘Out of Focus EP’ in 1998 (10:00)
- Linking up with JR Swift on new album ‘Seven Times Down Eight Times Up’ (11:10)
- Working with Griselda, wanting to work with Just Blaze (15:00)
- Making the banger ‘Jason’ (17:33)
- Breaking down the cover of the new record (23:30)
- Storytellers who influenced him: Slick Rick, Nas, Ice Cube, Tarantino (27:30)
- How he made ‘Thugged Out Zombies’ (28:40)
- Talks on potential super group with Black Milk, Royce Da 5’9” (30:35)
- His thoughts on his ‘Europass’ record (32:30)
- Debuting on J Dilla’s ‘Welcome 2 Detroit’ and witnessing Jay Dee make a beat in FIVE minutes (35:30)
- Making ‘Jericho Jackson’ with Khrysis (41:20)
- Why he loves Thom Yorke and Radiohead (43:25)
- Why he’d have loved to sit in on the Souls of Mischief studio sessions (45:47)
- Working with Kanye West (49:00)
- Touring in South Africa…and getting robbed (51:00)

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