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Zanku's Dying Breath Is Problematic

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Zanku's Dying Breath Is Problematic

Zanku is experiencing a natural decline. But it's most famous sons are refusing to let it die. They are waging a war that is already lost.

Joey Akan
Jun 14, 2020
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Zanku's Dying Breath Is Problematic

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Zanku is dying, but it isn’t going down without a fight. All of its chief proponents from the ‘street end’ of the industry are trying to do the impossible: make a genre out of a fad. Even though such an effort is admirable, heroic even, ultimately it's futile. Zanku has neither the range, the melody, nor the malleability to be expanded to birth a music …

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