The Witzard Premiere: Zilla Rocca's Latest Disco Vietnam-produced Stand-alone Single "99 Triple 5 Soul Flow" (Three Dollar Pistol Music)
South Philly
rapper-producer and one half of
Career Crooks
,
Zilla Rocca
has returned with his first proper solo release of 2018,
"99 Triple 5 Soul Flow."
Zilla
is not only, part of
Career Crooks
with producer buddy
Small Professor
, but also, runs with his own crews,
The Shadowboxers
—formerly,
The 5 O'Clock Shadow Boxers
—and
Wrecking Crew
with fellow emcees
Curly Castro & PremRock
, along with
Small Pro
.
Zilla Rocca
additionally, runs his own
Philly
-based label,
, is co-creator of
@rapbooklets' Instagram
, and fancies himself a "
Noir-Hop
originator and corrupt novelist."
"99 Triple 5 Soul Flow"
is of course, a reference to infamous 1990's
Hip-Hop
clothing brand
and is the sequel to last year's similarly-minded
a stand-alone single with sonic ties to
Zilla Rocca
's upcoming
'96 Mentality
, which was produced by
Disco Vietnam
AKA
@SupernovaLox
. Now, this is where it gets a little hairy,
Disco Vietnam
was and still is a
Rock "N" Roll
band with a rotating cast of characters, which currently includes:
Barry Schwartz
, his brother
Kenny Schwartz
, and keyboardist
Nicki Kunzinger
.
<a href="http://threedollarpistol.com/track/99-triple-5-soul-flow-prod-by-disco-vietnam">'99 Triple 5 Soul Flow (prod by Disco Vietnam) by Zilla Rocca</a>
Disco Vietnam
(the band) is currently on a bit of a hiatus, but
Barry Schwartz
still records and releases
Hip-Hop
music and beats as
"Disco Vietnam"
—also, his recent beat-making alias.
"99 Triple 5 Soul Flow"
is made up of "an old beat
Zilla
dusted off," as Schwartz put it. When asked for comment on
"99 Triple 5 Soul Flow,"
Zilla Rocca
, or their future work together,
Barry Schwartz
said: "me and
Zilla Rocca
dug coal together." Between 2007-12,
Disco Vietnam
released three
EP's:
Get at Me Corruption
, TOTALLY AWESOME DECISIONS, and wonderfully-titled
Fear of Lava
.
Disco Vietnam
's 2007 smash single,
"The NP (Natalie Portman)"
was even featured on
HOT 97
's
Rosenberg Radio
. However, if you're more into the beat-making side of things,
Disco Vietnam
also, has a
page chock-full of beats, rough sketches, demos, features with rappers,
Disco Vietnam
(band) songs, and much, much more with material dating as far back as 2011.
Zilla Rocca
is currently wrapping up a number of projects to be released throughout 2018, including, but not limited to,
Career Crooks' Thieving As Long As I'm Breathing
remix EP,
'96 Mentality
, and his long-awaited solo album,
Future Former Rapper
. I'll just let
Zilla Rocca
take it from here...
"I have a few releases dropping this year with Career Crooks being a remix project, Thieving As Long As I'm Breathing and then, my official solo LP, Future Former Rapper, probably in the summertime. '96 Mentality is a project I just did really quick—it's where my head is right now. Most of the songs are two minutes or shorter and it's a bunch of producers on there that I'm very cool with that are incredibly dope: Disco Vietnam, Ray West [Red Apples 45], The Expert, DJ Manipulator, Dr. Quandary, and more. It's just a banging Rap project that made me think about how much I loved Rap in 1996 and how that year inspired me to take Rap seriously. So, here I am 22 years later, putting out my own music based off that year!"
- @ZillaRocca(The Grey Ghost)