Artist's albums
Gave You My All
2023 · single
Find A Means
2023 · single
The Best Emcees (Instrumental)
2023 · single
Repeat
2022 · single
The Best Emcees
2022 · single
Bottoms Up
2022 · single
No Rain No Flowers
2022 · single
Zhigeist
2022 · album
Already Gone
2022 · single
Strangeland
2022 · single
Attack
2022 · single
Merlot
2021 · single
Growth
2021 · single
Cold Steel
2021 · single
Back In The Days
2021 · single
Seven Times Down Eight Times Up
2020 · album
Smoke & Mirrors
2020 · single
Light One Write One
2020 · single
JASON
2020 · single
Europass
2019 · album
Witness My Growth
2019 · album
Out of Focus
2019 · album
Bottled
2019 · single
Lead Poison
2016 · album
Alienated (feat. Smitty)
2016 · single
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Biography
A gifted MC and outspoken critic of commercial hip-hop, eLZhi began his career rubbing shoulders with Waajeed, Dwele, and the other gifted Detroit artists involved in the city's flourishing late-'90s underground hip-hop scene. After an appearance on Jay Dee's groundbreaking 2001 album Welcome 2 Detroit, eLZhi joined the producer's crew, Slum Village. With Jay Dee spending more time with other artists, eLZhi became the producer's replacement, beginning with the group's 2002 effort Trinity (Past, Present and Future). Two more albums from the group -- 2004's Detroit Deli (A Taste of Detroit) plus a self-titled effort in 2005 -- appeared before eLZhi began focusing on his solo career with the 2008 release The Preface. He reunited with Slum Village for a 2010 LP, Villa Manifesto, although one fellow Villager, Baatin, died before its release. An array of hip-hop luminaries appeared on the album, including Posdnuos, Phife Dawg, Little Brother, Dwele, and DJ Babu. Villa Manifesto was eLZhi's last with the group, however. He sprang back into solo action with a mixtape, Elmatic, conceived as a tribute to Nas' Illmatic; eLZhi wrote all the rhymes while Will Sessions produced. A Kickstarter campaign helped fund his next venture, Lead Poison, released in 2016. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi