Truly standing out as the late coming member of the acclaimed group Slum Village, Elzhi basically had the difficult task of filling the void left after J Dilla’s departure.  Well, with impressive talent through sharp lyricism, Elzhi lived up to the expectations set by wowing listeners on Slum Village projects, as well as guest appearances.  It [cont.]

Mixtape/Compilation Release; No Rating Given       When Jay Dee left Slum Village , a young hungry emcee named Elzhi was chosen to take his place. With that, the super talented emcee was brought in to bring a level of lyricism that was yet to be heard from Slum Village . But if you were fortunate [cont.]

HHS: When were you approached about joining Slum Village?  Was it something that came about out of the blue or was it a “if something happens, would you be down” scenario? Elzhi: Really, it was something that came out of the blue.  At first, I was T3′ artist, because he was getting into management and [cont.]

Slum Village has been through a lot, with label drama, group drama, and every other problem that a crew could go through.  But through it all they persist and grow with each release.  I sat down with Elzhi and he cleared some things up for the hip-hop world (T3 was sleeping in the background) Here’s [cont.]