# Tuesday’s Talent – Zed Zilla

- Link: https://exclusiveaccess.net/tuesdays-talent-zed-zilla/
- Published: 2011-10-18T11:17:45-04:00
- Author: EAN

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      [_Rent’s Due Intro_](http://exclusiveaccess.net/videos/zed-zilla-rents-due/)

It would seem as though local love comes with the territory. However, in the Memphis
rap scene, the North and the South sides of Memphis are equally separate and unique
within themselves (like boroughs in New York City). [Yo Gotti](http://ticketmaster.evyy.net/c/4256257/264167/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fyo-gotti-tickets%2Fartist%2F703749)(
from the Northside) signing Zed Zilla (from the Southside) is unifying two separate
regions within the major city. “By us being from two different sides of Memphis 
and being on a project together and him pushing my project, it was a big thing for
the city,” says Zed Zilla. It can only aid in the progression of putting Memphis
rap solidly on the map.
 Don’t get it twisted though, Yo Gotti didn’t pluck Zed 
Zilla from obscurity and randomly sign him to CMG. Zed’s been pounding the pavement
for a while, delivering mixtapes most notably with a rent-inspired theme (Landlord,
etc.). His next mixtape Rent’s Due arrives on October 18th hosted by Florida’s Bigga
Rankin, and is in Zed’s words his biggest project yet. “We really put a whole movement
behind putting the project together,” Zed says of the mixtape. The rent theme will
continue with tentative future titles including Late Notice and Eviction Notice 
as well. “You have to have a strong work ethic in this game,” Zed says. “You have
to have more than the music and the flashin’. Everything has to be on point from
the storytelling to the numbers.”

Zed met Gotti one fateful day in Memphis when Zed Zilla was performing. Gotti heard
the new talent and approached him after the show. “It’s been crackin’ ever since,”
Zilla says.