SEE HOW ZAYQUAN AETERNUM IS BRILLIANTLY FUSING HIP-HOP AND ANIME

Somto Ike
2 min readAug 20, 2021

As an artist, the great feeling about making music is the freedom to creatively express yourself. Presently, music lovers are always excited to listen and vibe to new tunes. There is no better time than now to give them what they love. Pretty Boy Zay has keyed into this by sparking his creativity.

Corboi Kennedy-Flomo, or Zayquan Aeternum as you know him, is a young music star that is bringing a new wave into the hip-hop scene. The growing artist brilliantly combines his love for anime and music talent to produce a unique style of music. According to him, his music is a multi-genre type of sound that blends with the fantasy of sci-fi and anime; he adds a poetic feel to it.

Zayquan Aeternum’s style of music appeals to nerdy and creative fans like him. He draws inspiration from anime because of how creative they are. The cartoon characters and anime plots tickle his fancy, and he realizes that a lot of people can relate to this as well. So he makes his music for these fans.

As a young and inspiring artist, Zayquan harnesses other skills like writing, drawing, and graphics design. This makes him more of a fan favourite.

Making Anime-Inspired Songs

Recently, Zayquan Aeternum released a song inspired by the popular anime, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid. The track reveals how people can co-exist and help each other grow. Zay draws passion from Kobayashi’s kindness and hospitality. The world will be a better place to live in if we all can be accommodating and show love to one another regardless of race.

In his songs, the young artist talks about his struggles and losses in life, so he uses music to elevate himself and his fans. According to him, there is a lot of sadness and loss in his music because of his experience. So he tempers it with majesty, arrogance and depravity. Zaquan’s sound represents the condition of being a human that has all flaws, and a superhuman rises above it all.

Zayquan Aeternum’s talents are not limited to making music. The music sensation is the author of the book titled, Black Emperor, as well. Apart from anime and his life lessons, Zayquan is also inspired by Travis Scott. You can link up with hip-hop’s next big star @realprettyboyzay, on Instagram, and @prettyboyzay on Twitter.

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