These three albums are a manifesto about the steps a black person takes to have experiences considered “normal” in a society of extreme racism. The trilogy presents a dense universe of jazz, in addition to the artist’s skills as a lyricist of more classic rap. “It’s important to understand that I don’t try to be timeless. My sound has at its core the breaking of time and that’s what the trilogy proves. I built a complete work and divided it into three parts that summarize Zulu’s narrative”, he says. Zudizilla’s narrative develops from his experiences in the body of a black man and how this has always affected his dreams and possibilities. In vol. 1, the artist presents tracks about dreams and the chance of always losing them. In vol. 2, he brings the fight to achieve power by any means necessary because that’s the only way he’ll get respect and solve problems.
In the third, Zulu finds himself a father, traumatized, still a dreamer, sometimes with money and power that do not protect him or provide him with security or access, sometimes angry, but with an immense desire to tell the world “I want to be ordinary”. With a lot of research and admiration for cinema, Zudizilla says that he is inspired by director Park Chan-Wook's revenge trilogy, but that in his case he does not repeat the narrative and the albums function as three independent productions of the plot. The second volume of the trilogy, “Zulu, Vol 2: From Caesar to Christ,” earned Zudizilla the award for best album of the year 2022 by Prêmio Rap Brasil. Have you listened to this trilogy? What is your favorite album?
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