New York vogue rapper Zebra Katz’s ‘Ima Read’ is a minimalistic club track aiming its menacing beat and vitriol at an unknown enemy with an unknown beef. Released on Mad Decent’s Jeffries label wing at the start of the year, the song and its superb video is spinning back around again with remixes from Grimes, Azealia Banks and this new Tricky one which amps up the beats and atmosphere replacing Njena Reddd Foxxx with Three Six Mafia’s Gangsta Boo and Tricky adds some threatening lyrics of his own. Free download:
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
