This makes Z-Ro actually less detached from reality than many of his more successful peers when with artistic sincerity and steadfastness he speaks about things average people can relate to. In the context of rap, this concept is bound to foster a fanbase eventually, because it lends the prevalent idea of superiority a human touch, a complicated note, an air of Wolverine or Batman. Rather than a victim of social exclusion, he’s a maverick at his own will. That lone wolf angle has introduced a kind of character into the rap cabinet that is not only unique in its remarkable consistency but also distinguishes itself from most other outsiders by being portrayed as a winner, not a loser. The feelings he harbors are typically negative, to the effect that Z-Ro thinks he’s better off alone. If that’s not being conscious of your social environment, I don’t know what is. If Z-Ro was on a mission to Mars, he’d still flip the bird at the rearview mirror while hollering a defiant “I don’t need y’all anyway.” Just to let you know. Z-Ro gives new meaning to the term ‘socially conscious rap.’ The rapper, who as a young artist came to the compelling conclusion (in song form) “I Found Me,” proceeded to spend the rest of his career defining himself by his relationship with others, song after song, inadvertently proving the old saying right that no man is an island.
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