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This dropped 7 years after his EP Drklng , only releasing singles between the two releases. Zebra Katz is without a doubt a globetrotter, using experiences and influences from all over the world to craft his unique sound and personality. His music has also reached far and wide as his Spotify top monthly listener bases can be found in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the US. No stranger to identity expression and style, Zebra Katz keeps his fans on their toes as he disorients them with his dazzling stripes.

It's minimal, menacing and intoxicatingly repetitive — the word "bitch" is used 87 times. Being different yourself gives you the power to make other people think differently. Reading on mobile? Watch the video here. When he raps it's at an ultra-slowed, lowering snarl, but when he speaks it's at the thousand-words-per-minute rate of an artist high on ideas adrenaline. We meet at a Brooklyn diner in his neighbourhood and he explains that Zebra Katz began, "just as this joke character between some friends — after two drinks I'd be rapping".

The phrase "Ima Read" was a sort of personal mantra, which "just came from being in college and being fed up". There weren't many other black male students, he explains, and so "there were those moments, when I was dealing with my peers, when I'd be like, are you kidding me?

When Morgan studied Shakespeare he submitted a thesis on moors in the plays after "being cast as all these characters because of my skin tone. You want me to put a piece of bone in my nose and play Caliban, you know? Despite not having a strong personal relationship with voguing, Morgan says the movement was pushed onto him as a means for creating context for "Ima Read.

Morgan clarifies this by saying that non white people are commonly expected to be more resourceful than their white counterparts. With elements of hip-hop, drum 'n' bass, and electronic music, Less is Moor is said to channel Katz's caustic lyricism into its biting rhythms.

His senior thesis project, "Moor Contradictions," was a performance featuring monologues and raps, including "Ima Read," from different personas created by Morgan. Among these characters is Zebra Katz, who Morgan says, was formed as a result of his thesis on identity obsession.



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