After successfully recording a demo of material, the brothers enlisted the talents of friend and local rapper Nicholas Pouponneau in the summer of 2010, who began rapping verses over the instrumental tracks they had previously written.
[5] After building up a repertoire of new music, which included input from new members Poupponeau and Milloy, the band began playing gigs in the National Capital Region and beyond.
[8] 2012 found the band playing in Toronto for the NXNE festival, as well as the JunoFest in Ottawa, in support of the 2012 Juno Awards ceremony.
[9] The band's biggest show to date was at the 2012 RBC Royal Bank Ottawa Bluesfest, when they opened for Lauryn Hill.
[11] Earlier that year, the Citizen had referred to Zoo Legacy as being a part of Ottawa's 'golden age of hip hop'.
[15] In April of 2013, they played at the acclaimed Soho House in Toronto with up-and-coming rappers The Airplane Boys.
[28] 2015 commenced with the finishing of the Departures EP, with recording occurring at Audio Valley Studios in Ottawa, ON.