Zeke the Zombie Slayur Unveils I’m Glad I Made This: A Self-Made Odyssey of Art, Ego, and Freedom

There’s something magnetic about artists who treat their work as both mirror and manifesto. Zeke the Zombie Slayur is one of them. An artist whose creative output refuses to sit still. The Brooklyn-born polymath has long moved between worlds: music, fashion, design, visual art - yet his latest record, I’m Glad I Made This, feels like the point where they all converge.

A sprawling 26-track concept album, I’m Glad I Made This is a self-portrait. A dialogue between Zeke and the voices in his head, his community, and the world watching him create. Across its hour-long play time, he wrestles with the dualities of being a young Black artist in America: admiration and jealousy, freedom and fatigue, ego and empathy. The result is an unfiltered meditation on the cost of independence in an age of hypervisibility.

It’s a declaration that cuts to the core of his philosophy. For Zeke, art isn’t about spectacle — it’s about sovereignty. He pulls equally from hip-hop’s raw introspection and the layered textures of fine art, crafting what he calls “the frequency of love.” Not romantic love, but the kind that accepts your contradictions and still holds you close.

On tracks like “be right there,” he sharpens that tension into poetry: “You say rapper, I say prophet.” It’s a line that distills his defiance: refusing to be boxed into a single identity when he’s building entire worlds. Every beat, lyric, and visual feeds into a larger conversation about what it means to create - and survive - as a multidisciplinary artist today.

Zeke is, quite literally, a self-made universe. A producer, designer, visual artist, and founder of Open Casket LLC and Sushi Palace (@sushipalass), he handles everything from engineering and composition to cover art and creative direction. His world is surreal yet grounded, oscillating between divine introspection and New York street grit.

Outside the studio, he’s modeled for Golf Wang, curated art shows through Sushi Palace, and staged immersive live experiences like A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a nomadic art show spotlighting New York’s next generation of visionaries.

Born Isaiah Nathaniel Benjamin, Zeke grew up skating the streets of Sunset Park, dreaming of a life in art since age 12. That dream crystalized after meeting Tyler, The Creator, whose creative fearlessness became a blueprint for his own. A decade later, at just 23, Zeke runs two creative companies, collaborates with underground icons, and continues to push what it means to be an artist in motion.

With I’m Glad I Made This, Zeke the Zombie Slayur offers a manifesto for creative liberation. It’s messy, layered, spiritual, and deeply human. A reminder that sometimes, the act of making is the truest form of survival.

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