My life is fucked up, and I'm tired of having to drink to a G
If a nigga take me out it's all good, cause I've been fiending to leave I gotta pay my rent, therefor my partnas might be targets tonightĮven though I'm grown fucked up childhood, keep fucking my domeīuy your work, and straight leave on your song My life my life, falls under the wicked and shife
It was only a grade, you know I didn't deserve to get hit like that Wasn't I good enough, to get some shit like that Grow po' wings was bullshit, so I ran wild Please God forgive your servant, and your man childīut the fact that he got Jordans, and a nigga like me Stained finger tips and lips, cause smoking come with murdersįiending for heaven but I wonder, if I'm worthy Since my nigga died, I done slowed down on drank Looking at my life as if I wasn't here, why the fuck that picture be so clear When I'm under pressure, I feel it's necessary to blaze Lord please have mercy on my soul, I can't maintain He is building a team around him that he knows has the keys and the directions to take him where he deserves to be in his career.Ĭheck out his myspace page: zroofficial and pick up the new album "Crack ".A B C D E F J H I G K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z "Z-RO" has taken on new management, DollarBill Music Group PKA "DMG" and is ready to go nationwide with his career. All of these things helped to escalate Z-RO’s buzz throughout the South and by 2002 his talent and hard work caught the attention of Rap-a-Lot’s founder and CEO James Prince, who offered him a deal. In addition to this Z-RO also joined the late great DJ Screw’s legendary Screwed Up Click and started spitting fire on the pioneering DJ slowed down tapes. In 1996 Z-RO Dropped his underground debut entitled “Look What You Done to Me.” The record created a huge buzz for Z-RO who quickly followed that up with Z-RO Vs the World and King of the Ghetto as well as a record by his group the Guerilla Maab.
It wasn’t long before Z-RO went from listening to rap music to kicking his own little freestyles over instrumentals that he heard on the radio and deciding that he was good enough to get into the rap game.Īfter going through a couple of studios recording demo after demo he finally caught a big break when he was hanging out in a studio and the CEO of a local rap label heard him free styling and signed him. According to Z-RO listening to the music of Tupac, The Geto Boys, Street Military, K-Reno and Klondike Kat inspired him to hustle harder so he could one day get himself out of the trap for good. Ironically, it was while he was hustling that he discovered rap music. “A nigga started experiencing gun shots, stab wounds and all that other type of shit….all the shit that comes with being grown.”īy the time Z-RO had reached his late teens he had fallen victim to many of the traps that the system had set for young Black males, seeking a decent life with no jobs or opportunity available. “That’s when shit started to get real,” recalls Z-RO. Once again Z-RO was forced to move to the east side of town, where things started to get kind of hectic for him.
But that stability would be even harder to find when at age six Z-RO’s mother died, forcing him to come to grips with pain at an early age.
The 28 year old rap sensation was shuttled from household to household, in search of stability. Born Joseph Wayne McVey in Houston’s rough and tumble South Park area. I that name to keep me grounded to remind me of where I came from to respect my blessings right now so I don’t go back that way.”Īnd the place where Z-RO came from was nowhere near nice. So I told myself a long time ago that I am going to adopt the name of nothing and make something with it. “Didn’t have nothing and couldn’t see nothing up ahead. Over the years the word zero has come to represent the average brother struggling to survive in the wake of devastating poverty and institutional racism that has regulate young Black men to the bottom of America’s socio-economic latter hence the reason why Houston native and Rap-A-Lot latest rap sensation Z-RO chose the numerical symbol for his stage moniker. It is the lowest possible point or degree, nothing, zilch, nada, nil. 28, 2008 - PRLog - According to the dictionary the word zero is a numerical symbol that represents the absolute absence of any quantity or magnitude.