Future Former Rapper

Zilla Rocca

2018

“You’re well over 30. You live off coffee, water, and booze. You’re married. You have a child on the way,” Zilla Rocca says. “You’ve been rapping half your life. You are too old for the young boys but too young for the legacy circuit. You make an album inspired by Danny Brown’s Old because you’re old, an album inspired by Vince Staple’s Summertime ’06 because you survived youth in a savage city, an album inspired by Nas’ Street’s Disciple because the best writers aren’t afraid to look backwards.”

“One day you will become a former rapper, so you make an album shaking out every trick up your sleeve from 13 years as a completely independent artist,” which became Future Former Rapper.