UrBn Zombie

UrBn Zombie in 2021

### Occupation

Rapper • youtube personality • streamer • songwriter • musician • record producer

### Labels

UrBn Records • Underground Hype Music • Flamed Havoc

### Associated Acts

Outcastgaming • Tragic Records • Tank Productions • DD3 • Fazechance334 • Splitcartoon444 • MrR\_427 • WTF Crew • bionic\_wolf2006

**Cooper Stevens** (born October 1, 2004), known professionally as **UrBn Zombie** (pronounced "urban zombie"), is an American rapper, songwriter, and youtube personality. He began uploading guitar cover videos on his youtube channel under the name **xxXGuitarKidXxx** in late April of 2017 (although they have since been deleted). His most well known video during this time period was a parody of the song "Freaks" by Australian DJ Timmy Trumpet and New Zealand rapper Savage. The video itself, was in the style of the popular internet trend entitled "When mom's not home, and dad and son are".

UrBn Zombie began his music career in July of 2017 with a diss record titled "SuicideBoy Diss Track", which is targeted against fellow creator (known at the time as) suicide-\_-boy666. He would follow up with another diss record "Ain't Got No Time" over a year later targeting SuicideBoy, as well as his brother KillerClxps after entering himself into the feud. Both songs are commonly mistaken to being targeted towards the $uicideboy$, however UrBn Zombie would go on to debunk the misconception.

In 2018, UrBn Zombie would go on to form UrBn Records, but the label would mysteriously fade out. He would eventually form Underground Hype Music with fellow rapper Kaps in 2020, but that label would eventually be defunct in March of 2021 due to creative differences. In response, UrBn Zombie formed Flamed Havoc shortly after Underground Hype's demise. He would go on to release three demo tapes under the Flamed Havoc label, *The Live Demo Tape* on November 9, 2021, *The Black Friday Massacre* on November 26, 2021, and *The Live Demo Tape II* on May 10, 2023. He also released one collaborative demo tape with RealRapperD titled *Jazz Rap* on September 9, 2022. His most well known singles he's released throughout the years consist of "How I Feel" and "Bad Person (Remix)", both re-released on *The Live Demo Tape*, "Bad Person II", re-released on July 19, 2021, "New England Freestyle", featured on *The Black Friday Massacre*, "Prime Time", featured on *Jazz Rap*, and a live recording of the song "Breakdown" featured on *The Live Demo Tape II*. His debut EP *Legends Never Die When Unforgotten* was released on October 20, 2023.

UrBn Zombie used to have the "-\_-" emoticon in his name, but ultimately removed it shortly before the release of *The Live Demo Tape*. He is also one of the three co-hosts of the Brainless Podcast.

## Career

### YouTube

Stevens first created the "UrBn Zombie" youtube channel on April 30, 2017, which was under the name of "xxXGuitarKidXxx." HIs first video on the channel (which has since been deleted) was a guitar cover of "Another One Bites The Dust" by the british rock group Queen. The next day, he would upload a video titled "Channel Introduction", in which he would explain that he planned on uploading guitar covers exclusively on the channel. He would go on to release three more guitar covers shortly after, covering "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, "Blue On Black" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and "American Idiot" by Green Day. All of these videos have since been deleted.

On May 20, 2017, Stevens uploaded a video titled "What Happens When Parents Aren't Home And Kids Are", which was a parody of the "What happens when Mom's not home" internet trend. The video begins with Stevens playing the intro riff of "Freaks" by Timmy Trumpet on his guitar, along with two of his friends sitting next to him hitting two books together to make a beat. The video ends with the pair throwing the books to the side and looking into the camera with excitement, as Stevens reaches over to turn off the camera. The video was widely loved, and it now currently sits as Stevens' third most popular video on his channel as of January of 2023. His content would then go on to drift into gaming, recording himself mainly playing Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Call Of Duty: Black Ops II.

In September of 2017, Stevens would go on to rename his YouTube channel to "UrBn-\_-Zombie". According to Stevens himself, his reasoning of renaming the channel was mainly due to "confusion" when sharing his videos, as well as shifting away from doing guitar covers. He would only go on to upload one guitar cover after renaming his channel, "Basket Case" by Green Day, but he hasn't made one since then. He named the channel "UrBn-\_-Zombie" after his PS4 gamertag, and would state that he got the name from playing the Black Ops II zombies mode, as well as being in a Call Of Duty gaming clan at the time known as "UrBn".

On Christmas Day in 2017, Zombie reached 100 subscribers on his youtube channel, and uploaded a "100 Subscriber Special" as a celebration.

In 2021, Zombie removed the "-\_-" emoticon from his name, as well as changing his logo.

On January 1, 2023, Zombie's youtube channel began to grow in subscribers and youtube views after uploading a video discussing a bug in Madden NFL 23 and explaining to the viewers how to fix it. In just two days after the video was released, he had gained over 90 subscribers and reached over to 520, as well as gaining over 23,000 views on the video alone. Due to this, his videos have gained a large amount of notoriety compared to his videos in the past, as his two videos after the Madden video was uploaded gained over 100 views, and 60 views respectively. Most of Zombie's content revolves around him playing games like Call Of Duty, Grand Theft Auto V, EA Sports UFC, and Madden NFL.

#### *UFC On PSN* Series

The most consistent series on Zombie's youtube channel is the *UFC On PSN* series, which takes place inside of the EA Sports UFC video games. The series began on May 29, 2020, and it mainly centers around his created characters being involved in sanctioned fights. While featuring many created fighters, the series' main protagonist was 3X UFC Heavyweight Champion Tyrone Jones, (often known simply as Tyrone). The series came to an end on October 28, 2023 after 20 episodes.

#### Brainless Podcast

On March 5, 2022, Zombie, along with fellow youtube creators MrR\_427 and Splitcartoon created a youtube channel called the Brainless Podcast. They launched the first episode of the series almost a month later.

### Music

Zombie began publishing music on his youtube channel in the summer of 2017 and 2018, particularly hip-hop music. However, he never considered himself "committed" to the hip-hop genre at the time, and has stated that he began rapping as a replacement for singing. He didn't start becoming committed until May of 2020, when he released a single titled "How I Feel", which was a remix of "Oh Lord" by rapper NF. Zombie would later go on and team up with producer H3 Music and release the single "Bad Person (Remix)" on June 14, 2020, which featured snippets of an unreleased NF single at the time. On November 19, 2020, Zombie released "Bad Person II" along with producer H3 Music again, and featured more unreleased snippets from NF just like it's predecessor. All three of these singles would later be removed, but Zombie would eventually re-release the music.

On November 9, 2021, Zombie released a two track demo tape titled *The Live Demo Tape*, which featured live performances of "How I Feel" and "Bad Person (Remix)". Less than a month later, Zombie would go on to release *The Black Friday Massacre*, a three track demo tape that features two skits and a lead single titled "New England Freestyle", a song which has been labeled as his *magnum opus*. The entirety of the demo was produced by Zombie himself, making it the first in his career to do so. Additionally, "New England Freestyle" would be released on Spotify and Apple Music under the name of "Three Stylez" on January 15, 2022, becoming the first single of his career to be released on streaming and downloadable platforms. On September 9, 2022, Zombie released his third demo tape *Jazz Rap* along with fellow musician Rapper D (previously known as DD3). The demo heavily samples the movie *Night Of The Living Dead*, and was exclusively produced by Zombie. The lead single "Prime Time" was also met with critical acclaim. The demo would ultimately be released on Spotify and Apple Music just three weeks later.

On March, 31, 2023, Zombie released a live recording of an unreleased single entitled "Breakdown". He would follow up with an announcement that the recording would be released on Spotify and Apple Music just a month later. He would release it as a demo tape titled *The Live Demo Tape II* on May 10, 2023. On September 22, 2023, Zombie posted a picture on his personal Instagram account that showed a potential release date for a project, with the caption below showing the 'pervy eyes' emoji. He would then go on to announce a new single titled "Cancel Forever" just two days later, with the song set to be released on September 29, 2023. The song was confirmed to be a remix of "Demons (Ocean Mix)" by BLACKHAND MUSIC, also known as Ocean Beats, and it samples blackbear's "Cancel Forever", and XXXTentacion's "Find Me". On October 3, 2023, UrBn Zombie released a surprise single titled "40 Bars And Loaded", which was a diss track against Instagram user Brucefrm63rd. In the song, Zombie announced his debut EP *Legends Never Die When Unforgotten*, which would be released on October 20, 2023. UrBn Zombie released the EP's lead single "End Of The World" along with a music video on October 13, just one week away from the EP's release. On December 1, 2023, UrBn Zombie was featured on the song "Load Up" by RealRapperD on his album *Rebirth*.

#### Record Labels

In late 2018, Zombie founded UrBn Records, and made the announcement publicly on his Instagram page. Despite no music being officially released during the labels lifespan, it was hyped up by the fans of Zombie and fellow artists alike. The label would eventually be abandoned for unknown reasons. In 2020, Zombie would go on to form Underground Hype Music, and would welcome the likes of Rapper D, Tank Productions, Frampton, and Kaps to the label. Despite many singles being released under the label, as well as an EP by Rapper D titled *Confessions*, the label would meet its demise in early 2021 due to creative differences between the artists. In response, Zombie formed Flamed Havoc Records in March of 2021, with Kaps and Frampton eventually following his footsteps. Everyone in the conflict would eventually reconcile and join the label shortly after. Zombie has released three demo taps under Flamed Havoc, while Kaps has been putting out tons of singles under the label.

## Controversies

### Feud with Blackninja5 & Clxpzz

* *Main Article: The Underground Wars*

UrBn Zombie's feud between YouTubers Blackninja5 (also known as suicide-\_-boy666) and his brother Clxpzz (previously known as KillerClxps and FaZe Green) dates back to June of 2017, while both parties were in the mist of building their YouTube channels. As it states in the official article surrounding this feud: "The feud began with UrBn Zombie uploading a video titled "1v1 Makes Another Kid Rage Quit" on June 9, 2017, which was the second iteration in his 1v1 rage quit series. The video had the same concept as the other videos in the series would, but the opponent in the video happened to be Clxpzz himself (known in the video as coolkidtrunks). Blackninja personally messaged UrBn Zombie on his PS3 account (known as SuperOrder17) after the video dropped, and would go on to claim that Clxpzz did not leave the game out of rage, and accused him of lying in his videos. UrBn Zombie responded to him, declining the fact that Clxpzz didn't rage quit, and refuted his point about lying in his videos."

As issues would begin to escalate behind the scenes, both parties would engage in flame wars inside of the comments section of their videos. In response, Zombie released a diss track against Blackninja5 titled "SuicideBoy Diss Track" on July 5, 2017. Clxpzz responded with a diss track of his own almost a month later on his "FaZe Green" youtube channel titled "The Fall Of xxXGuitarKidXxx". The feud would eventually die down later that month after Clxpzz' YouTube channel was deleted, but he would re-enter himself into the feud in early Febuary of 2018, attacking Zombie's diss track made against his brother and pressured him to make a diss response to his own. Zombie would go on to release one more diss record titled "Ain't Got No Time" on August 19, 2018. The song heavily disses Clxpzz, as well as Blackninja5 despite remaining relatively quiet during the feud's resurgence. The feud would eventually come to an end after Blackninja deleted his YouTube channel, and both UrBn and Clxpzz would go on to publicly bury the hatchet.

Additional controversy between Zombie's two diss records surfaced during the feud, as they were both commonly mistaken to be against the $uicideboy$. However, Zombie has since debunked the rumor in the comments section of "Ain't Got No Time", stating: "NO! I'm not dissing the $uicideboy$".

### The "Jinx Dishonored" scandal

In May of 2020, UrBn Zombie had supposedly begun a feud with a YouTube user by the name of Jinx Dishonored. It started after Zombie uploaded a video of him and his friends playing Rocket League, with Jinx Dishonored commenting on the video claiming that he "stole from [his] Rocket League clan". The Jinx Dishonored YouTube channel released a video that supposedly featured the creator, named Harold, dissing Zombie by performing a rap acapella. Zombie would release a video of his own in response, leaking supposed messages from both parties, as well as proving that the acapella rap video didn't belong to the Jinx Dishonored channel. As the feud would escalate with diss tracks, two of Zombie's personal friends and collaborators released a video stating that Jinx Dishonored character is fake, and that Zombie was using it to create a fake beef for clout. Zombie denied the initial allegations in a response video, and the two parties would go on to have a public feud due to the incidents. The Jinx Dishonored character would remain absent from the spotlight until January of 2021, where another war of diss tracks would arise. Zombie would eventually go on to settle his feud between his friends and they would all reconcile. In the process, Zombie later admitted that the Jinx Dishonored character was indeed fake, and that it was created by UrBn himself. He issued an apology on his YouTube channel, a move that was widely praised. Shortly after his apology was posted, Zombie would go on to delete over half of his videos on his channel, including the videos involved in the scandal.

In 2023, Zombie was asked how he felt about the scandal almost three years after it began, as well as how and why he came up with the idea to begin with. He responded saying: "To keep it simple, I was just bored, and I was a stupid punk 15 year old at the time so that doesn’t exactly help. I was just trying to find something new to do, and I definitely took it too far. I could have kept this thing going in a different path though, kinda like where everyone knows that the beef is fake but are just here for the entertainment. This beef was 100 percent fake, Jinx doesn’t exist. I could have made this into a funny / jokey beef where everyone just loves the entertainment, similar to McJuggerNuggets' “Psycho Series”, but my dumb ass thought it would be better to manipulate my friends and come up with over the top BS instead. I’m glad I got called out though, cuz if I didn’t then I wouldn’t have learned a thing. I’m just thankful that we all settled everything and put this behind us. I’ve changed a lot since I issued my apology, and now I just laugh at my past self, as well as the pure stupidity of this whole thing."

## Personal life

Zombie currently resides in Maine.

Zombie is also an avid sports fan, particularly a fan of American Football and Basketball. He mainly favors teams located in the New England area, such as the New England Patriots of the NFL, the Boston Celtics of the NBA, and the Boston Red Sox of the MLB. He is also a fan of mixed martial arts and boxing.

Zombie has cited the likes of Eminem, MF DOOM, Wu-Tang Clan, NWA, Nas, Rakim, 2Pac, and Biggie Smalls as his main musical influences. He has also cited rappers NF, Hopsin, Denzel Curry, Joyner Lucas, Immortal Technique, Mobb Deep, Run The Jewels, Kendrick Lamar, Logic, as well as other musical acts from across the hip-hop landscape as influences too.

## Discography

### Extended Plays

* Label: Flamed Havoc
* Format: YouTube Audio, Streaming, Digital Download

### Demo Tapes

* Label: Flamed Havoc
* Format: YouTube Video
* Label: Flamed Havoc
* Format: YouTube Audio
 *Jazz Rap* | * Released: September 9, 2022
* Label: Flamed Havoc
* Format: YouTube Audio, Streaming, Digital Download
 *The Live Demo Tape II* | * Released: May 10, 2023
* Label: Flamed Havoc
* Format: YouTube Audio, Streaming, Digital Download

### Singles

#### As featured artist

* Label: Flamed Havoc
* Format: YouTube Audio

## Images

UrBn Zombie's logo from 2017 - 2021UrBn Zombie's current logo