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Zion I
The Take Over
(Gold Dust)
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The Oakland duo made up of producer AmpLive and emcee Zumbi have been producing a synthetic, beat-based sound as Zion I for almost ten years. Evolving noticeably from release to release, the duo has found yet another direction on The Take Over.








