After fashion designer Rick Owens played Zebra Katz’s “Ima Read” at his F/W 2012 show in Paris, the phones wouldn’t stop ringing. But Zebra Katz, née Ojay Morgan, didn’t expect the resulting hullaballoo from the track. After all, the Brooklynite had pieced together the haunting single years ago. Two days later, however, the New York Times called the profanity-laced hit “one of this year’s most striking,” and by the end of the week Harlem rapper Azealia Banks introduced its infectious hook to stiletto-clad fashionistas at Kanye West’s fashion week afterparty. Safe to say, Zebra Katz and his rapper sidekick, Njena Reddd Foxxx, had gone viral. So on the heels of their current tour, Katz and Reddd Foxxx took time out to school us on “reading,” hint at an upcoming remix, and talk “appropriations” from the Haus of Gaga. Check our interview and photoshoot below:
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