2 MELLO SAMPLED FRANK ZAPPA

• 2 Mello: Sounds Of Tokyo-To Future
      (2021, cdr, USA, private release)
      (2021, download, --, bandcamp)

2 Mello (real name Matthew Hopkins) is a hip hop artist and MC from Lexington, KY.

His ”Sounds Of Tokyo-To Future” album included a track entitled ‘I Shoulda Known!!’ on which he sampled an interview that Frank Zappa did with Larry King in 1989.

In the 1970s, New York graffiti, rapping and breaking became the prime expressions in the new young people subculture called hip-hop

Generally, you think what you hear on the radio is terrible

(Frank Zappa) I think basically, it’s product