Legends Never Die When Unforgotten

EP by UrBn Zombie

## UrBn Zombie chronologically

*The Live Demo Tape II* (2023)
***Legends Never Die When Unforgotten*** (2023)

***Legends Never Die When Unforgotten*** is the debut EP by American rapper UrBn Zombie, released on October 20, 2023. It was his first official project released under his record label Flamed Havoc Records, and his fifth project overall. The EP was first released on UrBn Zombie's personal YouTube account, and was then released on streaming services the next day.

## Background

Ever since UrBn Zombie was an adolescent, he always had an interest in becoming a musician, although he didn't start experimenting with hip hop music until he was twelve years old. He began as a battle rapper, and was first involved in a well documented feud with fellow YouTubers Blackninja5 and his brother KillerClxps. His very first song he published was a diss record against Blackninja5 as a response to the feud's escalation, with KillerClxps responding to a diss record of his own just a month later (although it has since been deleted). UrBn Zombie would respond a year later with a diss track of his own, unanimously winning the feud as it was credited as a step up in competition.

It wasn't until 2020, where UrBn Zombie stated that he felt "committed" to the hip hop genre, where he began releasing a series of records, with the first being "How I Feel" in May of 2020, which was a remix of "Oh Lord" by 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. 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 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". Zombie would later reveal that this song was a promotional single for the EP, although the project was not announced until October 3, 2023, where he released a diss record titled "40 Bars And Loaded" and announced the EP's name and release date at the end of the song. He would then reveal the EP's cover art and tracklist on his personal Instagram account leading up to its release, with its lead single "End Of The World" being released just a week prior.

## Content

### Production

The EP is mainly produced by UrBn Zombie, with the exception of "End Of The World" and the title track "Unforgotten". The former was co-produced by YouTube user Beats by Con alongside UrBn Zombie, with the latter being exclusively produced by YAKUZY. The rest of the EP was produced using the website BandLab, containing samples from the site as well as sound bytes from George A Romero's "Night Of The Living Dead" inside of the previously mentioned "End Of The World", taking inspiration from Zombie's collaborative demo tape with RealRapperD *Jazz Rap*. Production wise, Zombie mainly takes inspiration from old school hip hop, new school hip hop, lo-fi, experimental and industrial music. The EP consists of eight tracks, six of them being full songs with the last two being instrumentals used as the intro and outro respectively. Most of these songs are around two to three minutes long, most of which contain two verses with a chorus.

### Lyrics & Themes

The lyrics featured on *Legends Never Die When Unforgotten* were exclusively written by UrBn Zombie. "Breakdown" was written around April and May of 2023, and UrBn Zombie performed the song many times live before it was officially released. That song, along with "Unforgotten", "It Ain't Nothin'", and "Mogul", mainly talk about Zombie's aspirations to be a rapper, featuring complex rhymes and clever wordplay to get his point across. Songs like "End Of The World" and "Cobain" features more serious and conscious themes, with the former mainly being about society destroying itself due to war and violence, with the latter being about Zombie's battle with depression, comparing his mental state to that of Kurt Cobain.