Gravediggaz' "6 Ft Deep" is the best album I've heard this year

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I'd never heard it until now. Holy shit, this sounds like it was released yesterday! "1-800 Suicide", "Diary of a Madman", "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide"....to cite highlights seems a little inappropriate, since the whole thing is fucking great.

any thoughts?

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw them live. They were a fucking shambles.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I like 1800 Suicide

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SLEPT ON THIS ALBUM

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince Paul, DJing on top of a headstone...bwahahahahaha!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

DUDE I NEVER EVEN HEARD FREEBIRD BY SKYNRD UNTIL I WAS 27!

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan OTM. WTF dude? Your gothsta pass is hereby revizzoked.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

great album, the top of a long, steep slope.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I never heard "Come Sail Away" by Styx until last year.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember when this was called "Niggamortis".

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha! Yeah!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That was the UK title.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the best horror rap album ever

― peter $,.., Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

whew the competiton for that honor was FIERCE

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

NO LOVE 4 NECRO?

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

haha not that I've ever heard more than two songs by him

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Love Drugs" made me laugh.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's classic, in my opinion it's the best Wu record ever and the best rap LP of the nineties too. Admittedly, the only Wu connection is RZA, but it *does* sound like a updated, more edgy version of "36 Chambers".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, wasn't Masta Killa on it too? And Killah Priest?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

who's the Gravedigga that has that has that line about "Fat Ned, scheming on a blowjob from a crackhead"? Whoever he is, he's one of the best MCs I've heard.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Perry?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

If memory serves me right, I think it's RZA. I could be wrong though.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

RZA (as an mc) sounds totally different here than he does on later stuff, doesn't he? A lot gruffer.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I'm sorry, it isn't RZA, it's one of the other two, can't remember which one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I listened to the song, and I think the one saying that line is the Grym Reaper. His flow was indeed brilliant and original, it's sad he isn't amongst us anymore. RIP.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the best horror rap album ever

"NIGHTMARE ON MY STREET," BITCHEZ!!!!!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

oh come on that's like the Casper the friendly Ghost of horror rap

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

FP: Oh man, I gotta call Jeff, I gotta call Jeff Come on, come on Come on Jeff, answer Come on, man
JJ: Hello?
FP: Jeff, this is Prince, man Jeff, wake up, Jeff, wake up
JJ: What do you want?
FP: Jeff, wake up, man, listen to me, Jeff
JJ: It's three o'clock in the morning, what do you want?
FP: Jeff, Jeff, would you listen to me? Listen, whatever you do, don't fall asleep
JJ: Man
FP: Jeff, listen to me, don't go to sleep, Jeff
JJ: look, I'll talk to you tomorrow, I'm gong to bed Ahhhhhh! Ahhhhhh!
Freddy: Ha ha ha ha ha haaaa
FP: Jeff! Jeff! Jeff! Jeff! Answer me, Jeff!
Freddy: I'm your D.J. now, Princey! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

it's still classic of course

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Gravediggaz' 6 Ft Deep was the last rap LP I ever bought. Well, not last EVER - just the last one I bought upon release. I've bought many since then, but all from '93 or earlier. The only track that really stood out was the scarifying "Defective Trip".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Naah, stand out track is "Bang Your Head" - if only for the surging synth.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

what i particularly love about 6 Ft Deep is that it's not actually very dark at all! all the goth stuff is completely schlocky and goofy, the songs are all instantly catchy and full of hooks, it's basically a party album. one of the most 'fun' rap albums ever.

xpost OTM 'bang yr head' is def my favourite these days!

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i a;so saw gravediggaz live live at the strangest place - 11am on the main stage at reading festival. completely out of place, but i rememebr it being pretty decent, esp bang your head

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

If I was voting in the poll, this would be like, no.3.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Niggamortis is a better title.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

pete b pretty much otm. a classic.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

UK TITLE FOREVA, MOTHERFUKKERS

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolutely. Can we get a photo?

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I was invoked above. Sort of, in a way.

Great album, been a while since I listened to it I admit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"schemin' on a blowjob" line is from Killah Priest...as good as he is, I still think RZA steals the show - especially his hectic verse on "Trippin'"

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think Bob Digi gets enough props as a rapper.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

That is Killah Priest?!!? Really?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

no it's not, it's grym reaper!

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

And the Grym Reaper is Frukwan or someone, right?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

those Gravediggaz nicknames in full!

2 Poetic - The Grym Reaper
Frukwan - The Gatekeeper
RZA - The RZArector (do you see?!)
Prince Paul - The Undertaker

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked the clean version better (maybe the only hip-hop album where that is so), since nearly every line has a weird sound effect over the no-no's (gun click, shovel, cough, knife sharpened, scream, splat, etc.) giving it a whole other level of noise.

― BbetaA, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

This was one of the first albums I ever listened to ON WEED. It was PERFECT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

GREAT. GREAT. GREAT.

1-800-suicide PWNZ.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Too Poetic does the verse with "Old fat Ned, schemin' on a blow job from a crackhead". Dude had some of the best vocal inflections I've ever heard. Very creative.

His verse on "Mommy, What's A Gravedigga? (RZA Full Mix)" is fucking awesome. Like the part where he goes "You was washed in the blooooooooooooooooooooood of a lamb to be cleansed!" is cool.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG somebody needs to do a mashup of Gravediggaz and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, I stand corrected...it's been a long time, must break that one out today

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Too Poetic is the one who was in Stetsasonic, right?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince Paul and Frukwan were both in Stetsasonic. Not Too Poetic.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

horror rap was pretty big a while back, and the competition isn't throwaway, oops. brutha lynch hung, dr. octagon (second prize), that one rapper from detroit... ICP . . . tech n9ne just had the cover of murderdog. anyway, dr octagon wasn't bad.

― peter $.., Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

dr. octagon is in no way horror rap. skitzo rap, yes.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

but yeah, i don't know how i overlooked the genius of that one rapper from detroit.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

esham?

― Matt B. (Matt B.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Pre-fame Kid Rock?

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugs Bunny?

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Overrated.

― scg, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

"hey yo, reaper, those kids out there say they're mad thirsty. you got something for them to drink?"

"yo, we can wet up two cups of blood!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

and i wouldn't be so quick to pin ICP on the gravediggaz ... not that that would be a problem for dan.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Now on emusic. And even better than I remembered it being.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

You know what I only just discovered and can't believe I slept on so long? Liquid Swords! What's weird is I stuck it on the other night getting ready to blow my non-muso pals' minds and they were all "I can't believe you never heard this before"!

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

"Freak the Sorceress" on whatever Gravediggaz 12" it is rules as well.

I've got a dbl 12" with a version of "1-800 Suicide" with totally different, Jim Jones inspired, lyrics too.

The Portishead remix of 'em is dull tho'.

― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

I've got a dbl 12" with a version of "1-800 Suicide" with totally different, Jim Jones inspired, lyrics too.

Is this the same as the video version of the song? Because it has totally different lyrics which are less satirical and more anti-suicide.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h016eNYDw_U

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

That's it.

I got it here: http://www.discogs.com/release/298388

I've never heard "The Reincarnation Of Freud" which is on this: http://www.discogs.com/release/136226

― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

nine years pass...

confront a alligator, let it eat you raw

― j., Tuesday, 21 November 2017 06:27 (eight years ago)

Is this the gravediggaz jam session

― i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 06:36 (eight years ago)

This album is sublime.

― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 09:58 (eight years ago)

BANG YOUR HEAD

― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 09:58 (eight years ago)

Or be like Richard Pryor set your balls on fire ..

― calzino, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:01 (eight years ago)

Gravediggaz got some votes from me, at least, in the ongoing Wu poll: THE POLL IS COMIN THROUGH, THE OUTCOME IS CRITICAL — WU-TANG CLAN — Artist Poll — Results

2 Cups of Blood is my jam.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:03 (eight years ago)

If this wouldn't include "Bang Your Head", it'd be a perfect album. I always skip that track, cos the beat sounds so horrible, what were they thinking?! It's still better than any other album featuring RZA tho.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 12:03 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

6 feet deep is 25 years old today...

― big city slam (Spottie), Friday, 9 August 2019 20:57 (six years ago)

― Tuomas, Tuesday, November 21, 2017 5:03 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow hard disagree. its perfectly sloppy, very fitting on the album for me.

― big city slam (Spottie), Friday, 9 August 2019 21:01 (six years ago)

yeah i wouldn't change a thing about this record its perfect

― ciderpress, Friday, 9 August 2019 21:01 (six years ago)

I so loved this one at the time and 1-800 Suicide is a stone cold classic, where the fuck does 25 years go so fast?

― calzino, Friday, 9 August 2019 21:33 (six years ago)

During one of the roughest, most hopeless nights of my life, I got cute with myself and decided to listen to "1-800-SUICIDE" again. Uh, that was a bad idea. The sound of that sampled laughing became the sound of everyone who ever wanted anyone to kill themselves, ironically or not. Their voices became the sound of me laughing at my own pointless self-pitying, unable to escape the pointlessness, hating myself more and more for thinking what I was thinking what I was thinking. "You don't even HAVE any REAL problems, you fucking loser." Not exactly a helpful mindset to be in when you want to get out of that mindset.

I liked it when I first heard it, but the friend who played it for me the first time twenty years ago turned out to be a giant asshole, anyway. Dickwads like Tyler the Creator probably jack off to it.

Gimme Liquid Swords instead, that at least has your back.

― del griffith, Friday, 9 August 2019 21:58 (six years ago)

yeah, I've never understood the appeal of this album. even at the time I didn't like it.

― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:08 (six years ago)

really good production by Prince Paul is the appeal

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 9 August 2019 22:11 (six years ago)

it does sound pretty neat on the ol' ears, that's true

― del griffith, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:13 (six years ago)

lol, you don't half get some convoluted bollox on ilm!

― calzino, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:15 (six years ago)

Paul can be a bit much (Psychoanalysis, for ex.) Love Prince Among Thieves tho, that's an underrated masterpiece

― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:16 (six years ago)

fine album is it, not listened in years like.

― calzino, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:18 (six years ago)

this is a great album. bang your head is prob my fave track on it too.

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 August 2019 22:20 (six years ago)

never understood why shakey doesnt like this

― big city slam (Spottie), Friday, 9 August 2019 22:23 (six years ago)

it's true, it seems like the kind of thing I would dig, but somehow the lyrical approach is just off-putting to me. It's not funny enough to be taken as a joke, but taking it seriously just seems sad and morbid

― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:28 (six years ago)

i think it's pretty silly! and the production helps aid the silliness in a lot of instances.

― big city slam (Spottie), Friday, 9 August 2019 23:43 (six years ago)

You can't come back
No matter what you do when you fall in a death trap

― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:24 (six years ago)

I bought this album while I was part of a car pool to work. She usually slept on the drive.

And when my passenger heard "other rappers are flatter than a white girl's butt" she woke up briefly and said "he ain't wrong".

― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:25 (six years ago)

GUILTY

― j., Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:39 (six years ago)

Suicide it's a suicide

― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:57 (six years ago)

Shit i hadn't seen del griffith's post. Sorry :(

― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:58 (six years ago)

Wanna see something that'll make you sick?
Stand in front of jets on the Gaza strip

― ☮ (peace, man), Saturday, 10 August 2019 12:28 (six years ago)

Hilarious!

― Οὖτις, Saturday, 10 August 2019 15:21 (six years ago)

no problem, i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward aka Neanderthal, I forgive you.

― del griffith, Saturday, 10 August 2019 17:46 (six years ago)

Paul can be a bit much (Psychoanalysis, for ex.) Love Prince Among Thieves tho, that's an underrated masterpiece

He's pretty reined-in on 6 Ft Deep, this is about as close to straight-forward hip hop as he got.
Agreed on Prince Among Theives!

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 August 2019 17:48 (six years ago)

This album is a masterwork

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:06 (six years ago)

It sure is

― calzino, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:19 (six years ago)

I can remember being so sorely disappointed with the follow up, from a period when RZA was doing a few albums a week and somewhat spreading himself thinly. I can't remember if Prince Paul even had much input and didn't the gatekeeper die between albums? it wasn't particularly terrible - but the magic had gone.

― calzino, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:25 (six years ago)

Grym Reaper (Poetic) died, but that was after the second album. I never heard the third one.

― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 12 August 2019 19:30 (six years ago)

ah, relying my dodgy old memory here.

― calzino, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:34 (six years ago)

def a let down but there's 4-5 tracks on it i really love.

― big city slam (Spottie), Monday, 12 August 2019 19:51 (six years ago)

two years pass...

Back in the days of Lee's and BVD's
I grew up deceived, by wicked enemies
My lifespan began to dim in the error
When you can't even trust the man in the mirror
Now Gravedigga n****z receive my trust
and like Christ, we walk among the thieves and the sluts
I bring stress like skins on PMS
The street's a bloody mess, there ain't no EMF
in sight my thoughts are to leave the slums
I hustle with beats and drums not keys and guns
My feet are numb, as I walk my dogs
I cut off the fogs with the Gravedigga swords
Life parole, as me and my man is violated
Hookers are neutered and spay-ted
Snakes are decapitated, and castrated
N****z is lost your whole Ark is bein raided
Shows today are hectic, n****z'll wreck shit
Lift off rounds and jet quick
This piece is gettin heated
Cause a rush, a stampedin
Devils are all defeated by the blood brothers

― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 January 2022 03:53 (four years ago)

N****z

― JackMyFruit, Thursday, 20 January 2022 05:55 (four years ago)

why are you here, again?

― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:03 (four years ago)

Damn good question

― JackMyFruit, Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:07 (four years ago)

I grew up deceived, by wicked enemies

― JackMyFruit, Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:08 (four years ago)

well kindly licky deez

― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:13 (four years ago)

^another defeated devil

― JackMyFruit, Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:14 (four years ago)

one year passes...

i be that sick lunatic with a devilish poem

is a great rza line

― Heez, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 14:00 (two years ago)

it's that time of year again

― Left, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 14:20 (two years ago)

I am always impressed by how well integrated the album's "true horror" elements are within the fun/camp/parody framework of the whole thing - reality keeps intruding into these songs in a subtle but persistent way which feels more horror than comedy-horror - sometimes the comedy elements are the point but other times they feel more like tools for getting to a deeper darker place

― Left, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 15:08 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9yIGeBPnyE

― omar little, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:14 (two years ago)

that KRS1 sample in 1 800 Suicide still sounds great. I was so in love with this album that I tried really hard to love their 2nd one as well and it just never landed with me.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:16 (two years ago)

BLOOD
BROTHERS
ALL IN TOGETHER

― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:59 (two years ago)

one year passes...

I’m having one of those days where I think the grym reaper performance on this album is one of the best of all time. Such a bummer he died young. Didn’t realize he was born in T&T

― Heez, Thursday, 14 August 2025 06:04 (nine months ago)

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