{"id":7417,"date":"2025-12-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/just-2deadboyz\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:30:00","slug":"just-2deadboyz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/just-2deadboyz\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 2DeadBoyz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/IMG_0033.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Zombie Juice, Denzel Curry, and Meechy Darko backstage at Red Rocks. (Credit: Kyle Eustice)\"><figcaption>Zombie Juice, Denzel Curry, and Meechy Darko backstage at Red Rocks. (Credit: Kyle Eustice)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With a name like 2DeadBoyz, the connection to Outkast, whose 1996 single \u201c2 Dope Boyz (in a Cadillac)\u201d is a staple in the Southern hip-hop icons\u2019 catalog, isn\u2019t lost. The duo\u2014comprised of Flatbush Zombies rappers Zombie Juice and Meechy Darko\u2014was heavily influenced by Andr\u00e9 3000 and Big Boi, something they freely discussed backstage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre as part of the historic venue\u2019s annual Halloween show on October 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe definitely love Outkast,\u201d Meechy confirms. \u201cWe\u2019re very inspired. The name was inspired by that. We really want to make a song on that [\u20182 Dope Boyz\u2019], but you see how the music industry goes and the business, it\u2019s very hard to clear samples. And sometimes when you rap on legendary songs like that, you piss people off. And then they also ask you for 95% of the song.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/rob-reiner-wife-murdered\/\">Update: Rob Reiner, Wife Murdered By Son At L.A. Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/green-days-mike-dirnt-talks-about-creating-their-most-essential-record-in-years\/\">Green Day\u2019s Mike Dirnt Talks About Creating Their Most \u2018Essential\u2019 Record in Years<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/how-run-dmc-made-christmas-cool-for-hip-hop\/\">How Run-DMC Made Christmas Cool for Hip-Hop<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe were just talking about how we need another song for the project, and that might be what actually we end up doing together. Don\u2019t be surprised if it\u2019s a freestyle. Shout out to the Dungeon Family, man. Big inspirations in my life and where we are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meechy, dressed in a black leather jacket, and Juice, rocking a Tupac Shakur costume, had just performed their new Chuck Strangers-produced single, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ineffable.to\/chefkisses\" target=\"_blank\">Chef Kisses<\/a>,\u201d for the first time in front of the spirited sold-out crowd. Their unbridled energy onstage coupled with their meticulous rhyming styles were effortlessly captivating, while the Halloween theme of the show encapsulated both the Flatbush Zombies and 2DeadBoyz\u2019s dark aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite 2DeadBoyz\u2019s well established macabre motif, their views on death drastically differ. Meechy doesn\u2019t want to live past his 80s, but Juice wants the key to unlock immortality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me tell you why immortality is the stupidest thing ever,\u201d Meechy blurts out. \u201cThink of your hardest month you\u2019ve ever had in your life and the worst you\u2019ve ever felt. Being immortal, you\u2019re going to feel that month a hundred thousand times. I don\u2019t want to see forever. I love y\u2019all, but nah [laughs].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Juice quickly counters, \u201cIt\u2019s something special about being immortal. You can live for centuries, guys. Centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that established, the subject turns to psychedelics and their use of LSD, which Meechy says caused him to experience \u201cego death\u201d as a teen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up, I was very strict,\u201d Meechy says. \u201cI was like a military type kid. He [Juice] would tell you I was weird. I was like, \u2018Let me just do my research on this shit.\u2019 I went to the library and read a book on all the drugs before I even thought about trying anything and then I made up my mind. Him and Issa from the Underachievers convinced me to try shrooms and LSD for the first time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-5-Credit-Brock-Fetch.jpeg\" alt=\"Meechy Darko (left) and Zombie Juice (right) at the sold-out Red Rocks Halloween show. (Credit: Brock Fetch)\" class=\"wp-image-649662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-5-Credit-Brock-Fetch.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-5-Credit-Brock-Fetch-340x227.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-5-Credit-Brock-Fetch-240x160.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-5-Credit-Brock-Fetch-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/11\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-5-Credit-Brock-Fetch-498x332.jpeg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Meechy Darko (left) and Zombie Juice (right) at the sold-out Red Rocks Halloween show. (Credit: Brock Fetch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It changed his life. \u201cIt made me way more conscious and more self-aware,\u201d he remembers. \u201cI thought I was self-aware back then, but I was honestly a little bit more egotistical and a little bit more \u2018main character syndrome,\u2019 and it kind of took me out of that. Maybe too much to be honest. We\u2019re both only children, too, so I noticed some type of weird ego that we have underlying in there. Psychedelics definitely helped get me out of that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the show\u2019s headliner Denzel Curry interrupts the interview\u2014but in the best way possible. The camaraderie between the three rappers, who\u2019ve collaborated on songs like Flatbush Zombies\u2019 \u201cThe Glory\u201d and Meechy\u2019s \u201cLost Souls,\u201d which also featured Busta Rhymes, was comforting, like long lost friends seeing each other for the first time in years. What ensues is a comedic back-and-forth about why Denzel missed 2DeadBoyz\u2019s set, a quick conversation about the venue\u2019s altitude of 5,280 feet, and the advice Method Man gave Meechy when performing with very little oxygen (it\u2019s \u201cdrink water,\u201d by the way).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once Curry leaves, the topic returns to psychedelics, with Juice explaining how he feels they made him a better person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized I was very immature and ignorant, and I needed to smarten up a little bit and take care of my mind,\u201d he says. Meechy jumps in, \u201cI don\u2019t know if it made me a better person, but it made me a closer person and it made me form a better bond with the people I was around that mattered to me the most at that point in my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like money. What\u2019s in you is already in you, so if you\u2019re an asshole and you get rich, you\u2019re just gonna be a bigger asshole. I think with drugs like LSD and shit like that, it brings out those sides of you. It made my connection with my friends a lot stronger, and we got to really explore music. That was really our main thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meechy, who was raised in Brooklyn\u2019s Flatbush neighborhood, explains there wasn\u2019t a lot of space to take LSD and walk around without being consumed by the urban jungle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in apartments, we were in staircases, listening to music and sharing weird information and knowledge with each other,\u201d he adds. \u201cEgo death happened to me again in life without psychedelics, just from life kicking your ass. The ego will die when life really kicks your ass, so you don\u2019t really need a tab or pill to do that. I wish I knew that before. You\u2019re a superhero even without that shit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-2-Credit-Brock-Fetch.jpeg\" alt=\"2DEAD BOYZ. (Credit: Brock Fetch)\" class=\"wp-image-649692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-2-Credit-Brock-Fetch.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-2-Credit-Brock-Fetch-340x227.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-2-Credit-Brock-Fetch-240x160.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-2-Credit-Brock-Fetch-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/12\/2DEAD-BOYZ-Press-2-Credit-Brock-Fetch-498x332.jpeg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2DEAD BOYZ. (Credit: Brock Fetch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Flatbush Zombies and 2DeadBoyz were birthed through those experiences and put them on the path to where they are today. Flatbush Zombies, which also includes childhood friend and longtime producer Erick the Architect, released two successful studio albums\u2014<em>3001: A Laced Odyssey<\/em> (2016) and<em> Vacation in Hell <\/em>(2018)\u2014and followed up with the <em>Escape From New York<\/em> EP as Beast Coast (combined of members of Pro Era and the Underachievers) in 2019, among other projects.<\/p>\n<p>Their output as a trio has slowed significantly, sparking rumors of a breakup or even bad blood between the members, but that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. In fact, they sound wildly optimistic about the trio\u2019s future. They are all exploring their individual creativity before they eventually regroup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2DeadBoyz is something me and Juice always called each other,\u201d Meechy says. \u201cWe just made it official. I think us two together have our own realm. I like to think of things as multiverses. Me and him have our own connective tissue.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meechy and Juice plan on releasing their debut album sometime in early 2026, although they aren\u2019t ruling out the possibility of another Flatbush Zombies album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to see Erick in Japan a few weeks from now,\u201d Meechy says. \u201cWe\u2019ve been in a group together for 15, 16 years, and we all have different soundscapes, different things we want to tackle musically. It\u2019s hard to do that on an album every single time with a bunch of people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve done more than anybody can even imagine. Maybe that\u2019s why we\u2019re chillin\u2019 right now. We can take a little break and then figure out what we want to talk about as a group together, when the time is right and if the world really needs it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zombie Juice, Denzel Curry, and Meechy Darko backstage at Red Rocks. 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