Zen-Zin and Pawcut are not your typical rap group. Zen-Zin is a MC and singer from Karthoum, Sudan. Pawcut is a beatmaker from Minden, Germany. “The Wait” is the first Zen-Zin & Pawcut release since their debut album “Butterfly Effect” on Jakarta Records.
Zen-Zin started rapping at the age of 12 after getting into 50 Cent, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Malaysian hip-hop group Too Phat (a popular rap group from Malaysia). Pawcut’s first release was “Duplex”, a split album with FloFilz.
During the 70s and 80s Sudan was a musical hotspot in Northern Africa. Today hip-hop is the most popular music amongst young people in Sudan and Sudanese MCs like Oddisee and Bas are spreading the word from the USA. Zen-Zin who lives and works in the Sudanese captial Karthoum is one of the few local MCs who rap in English and has to cope with many obstacles in order to be artistically active and record music.
“People should know that we’re alive and well and that we’re looking forward to contributing to the genre.” Zen-Zin explains. “I don’t think there’s a place in the world where hip-hop isn’t the most popular music, unless you’re in a cave or some remote island somewhere. The problem is trying to make the local artists in these territories across the globe become involved in this success, Drake did a good job with putting Canada on the map and Stormzy and other grime artist are doing the same for London.”
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from
Ripple Effect,
track released February 12, 2020
Recorded in Karthoum, Sudan and Minden, Germany in November 2019.
Vocals & lyrics on all tracks by Zen-Zin. Produced & mixed by Pawcut / WTM.
Mastered by SterilOne at Staub Audio Engineering, Vienna. Artwork by Hr.Pixel / WTM.
Cat No: MPM 283-1
Artist: Zen-Zin & Pawcut
Titel: The Wait
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