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

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

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

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

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

1-800-suicide PWNZ.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

really good production by Prince Paul is the appeal

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

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

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

fine album is it, not listened in years like.

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

never understood why shakey doesnt like this

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

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

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

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".

GUILTY

Suicide it's a suicide

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

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

Hilarious!

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

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!

This album is a masterwork

It sure is

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.

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

ah, relying my dodgy old memory here.

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

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

N****z

why are you here, again?

Damn good question

I grew up deceived, by wicked enemies

well kindly licky deez

^another defeated devil

i be that sick lunatic with a devilish poem

is a great rza line

it's that time of year again

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

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

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.

BLOOD
BROTHERS
ALL IN TOGETHER