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Here's the Video for Black Zheep's "Shoot First"

The Baltimore rapper strikes.

Baltimore rapper Black Zheep DZ is a member of a crew called the 7th Floor Villains. Named after high school antics that involved skipping school, breaking into an abandoned building, and smoking up on the seventh floor and fronted by OG Dutchmaster (previously featured on VICE), the 7th Floor Villains are Bmore's menacing, young rap group that matters. Zheep is perhaps, the most lyrically skilled and eccentric. On "Shoot First" he mixes a gloomy almost gothic style with a breezy yet declarative delivery that's both throwback and very 2013 over a organ-heavy, slow rolling jazz beat produced by Blanco Yamaguchi. Imagine if say, Tragedy Khadafi read Lords of Chaos a whole bunch of times and you're almost there. In the video, directed by Nico Amarca, Zheep spits his finely tuned raps from a table like a monologist, backed by masked 7th Floor Villains and in white facepaint, Dead Presidents-style, adding another layer of eerie mystique to the young MC. "Shoot First" is off Black Zheep's Refugee released by Мишка Records, out on 1/14/14.

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