Z-Ro discovered his talent of freestyle rapping and after going through a couple of recording studios to make a demo, the CEO of a local label discovered and signed him.
According to Z-Ro, listening to the music of 2Pac, Geto Boys, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Street Military, K-Rino and Klondike Kat inspired him to work harder for his goal of leaving the streets. When Z-Ro reached his late teens he was unemployed and resorted to drug dealing and hustling on the streets. When he was six, his mother died, and he was shuttled from household to household in search of stability, eventually settling in the Ridgemont area, a middle-class neighborhood in Southwest Houston near the suburb of Missouri City. Z-Ro was born Joseph Wayne McVey IV in Houston's South Park neighborhood on January 19, 1977. He was named one of America's most underrated rappers by The New York Times in 2007. Read on for our list of some of the most powerful new protest anthems to come out of the Black Lives Matter era.Joseph Wayne McVey IV (born January 19, 1977), better known by his stage names Z-Ro and the Mo City Don, is an American rapper from Houston, Texas. Artists such as D’Angelo and Kendrick Lamar emerged with readymade, multifaceted statement albums smaller artists like Houston MC Z-Ro and icons like Prince released songs in response to various instances of police brutality and even typically apolitical megastars like Ariana Grande and Usher have joined the outspoken chorus.Ī new generation of artists are addressing racism, violence and disillusionment in a way that hasn’t been heard in decades. During the past four years, high-profile musicians have issued everything from anthemic rallying cries (Beyoncé’s fearless “Freedom”) to open-ended conversation-starters (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “White Privilege II”). The movement has politicized popular artists and helped to shake the commercial cobwebs from hip-hop and R&B. This month, they released “I Can’t Breathe,” their second song commemorating Garner, joining countless other musicians who have pledged their support to the Black Lives Matter cause. Which makes it all the more courageous that Ellisha and Steven Flagg, Garner’s siblings, refuse to let the tragic day they lost their brother fade into history. Two years after the death of Eric Garner at the hands of NYPD officers, “I can’t breathe” remains perhaps the most disturbing phrase in modern American history.
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