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

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.

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

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

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"!

"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'.

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.

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

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

confront a alligator, let it eat you raw

Is this the gravediggaz jam session

This album is sublime.

BANG YOUR HEAD

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

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.

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.

6 feet deep is 25 years old today...

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

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

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

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