J-Zone, the self-proclaimed “jack of all trades, master of zero,” may be familiar to you for any one of his six lives: Indie hip-hop’s class clown; an off-kilter producer with his own identifiable style; a frustrated music business casualty who penned a nervy memoir about the life of the working class musician (Root For The Villain); a tongue-in-cheek, encyclopedic music journalist; a late-blooming drummer with a knack for channeling the spirit of classic break beats or a DJ with a deep love for funk 45s.
On his seventh solo album (and twelfth overall), "Fish-n-Grits", J-Zone visits all the stops of an artistic and musical journey that spans well over two decades. As a student of samplers, drummer, multi-instrumentalist and collector of archaic studio gear, Zone was able to chef the album into his most sonically versatile album to date. A stew of dirty, funky live drumming, bizarre samples, pulsating percussion and menacing bass that stretches in vibe from a circa 1969 funk instrumental to a twisted, analog interpretation of trap music, Fish-n-Grits has moments inspired by just about everyone.
For the first single, “Go To Back To Sellin’ Weed,” with an assist from Prince Paul, Zone paints a vivid picture of struggle rappers and instructs those who are making a mockery of the music to take your Soundcloud down and go back to hand-to-hands.
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