Working with producer THRAXX, the two dropped off “Shinners13,” a menacing cut that’s now clocking in well over three millions streams.
Together they became City Morgue, and from the end of 2017, the two erupted Soundcloud with millions of listens. “I met Zilla my first day home and we were in the studio every day,” says Sos. Having his own take with a skewed rap spin, the product became not only a successful blend of the two art forms, but so unique that when his older brother P took his label to the next level with business partner Mel Carter, they would make ZillaKami a flagship artist.Īs soon as SosMula left prison, he hit the ground running as well. Selftaught in music theory, Zilla would piece sounds together by the familiar work of his idols like Henry Rollins and his work with Black Flag. “I wasn’t into hip-hop too much,” the 19-year-old admits, though once he was put onto the gruff vocals of DMX and the Hardcore-adjacent styles of Onyx and the Beastie Boys, his perspective changed. “I was in a Punk band called Scud Got Quayle,” Zilla adds, starting with playing bass and moving over to vocals. Raised in Bay Shore, Long Island, ZillaKami was a product of the flourishing Hardcore movement specific to the region-as clubs like Revolution Bar in Amityville were backbones of that niche culture. When Sos was released, he learned that not only was P building a new movement, but his little brother ZillaKami was now a part of it. “I’m baggin’ up, listening to Jeezy while I’m cookin’ crack.” After a few bids, he landed a 15-month one in 2015 over a house raid, and during that time would correspond daily with Hikari-Ultra co-founder Peter “P” Rogers, who was working at his mother’s shop at the time. “The numbers, the details…everything Jeezy was talking about? I was doing that shit,” Sos recalls. “I had the talent, I just didn’t know what to do with it.”Įventually the streets came calling and budding Trap stars like Jeezy would provide the soundtrack to his real life. I never really took it seriously,” the 24-year-old says.
Listening to artists like Eminem early on, Sos quickly found his way to music. Growing up in Harlem, SosMula lived at the intersection of hip-hop and ink culture, as his mother owned a tattoo shop that became his second home. Their collective story begins in 2016, though their respective paths in music happened long before that. 1: Hell or High Water, the dynamic duo delivers a new and exciting vibe for any fan of true music-from hip-hop to metal. As the supergroup readies their collective debut mixtape City Morgue Vol. When upstarts SosMula and ZillaKami come together, their fusion is seamless-oozing true skill with a reckless lack of fucks left to give. The melding of Rock and Rap is a concept that’s existed within the underbelly of music for decades, yet few have done what City Morgue is about to do.
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