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

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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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

That is Killah Priest?!!? Really?

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

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

pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

And the Grym Reaper is Frukwan or someone, right?

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

GREAT. GREAT. GREAT.

1-800-suicide PWNZ.

ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

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

Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

oops (Oops), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

esham?

Matt B. (Matt B.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Pre-fame Kid Rock?

Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Bugs Bunny?

B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Overrated.

scg, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

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

Hurting 2, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

"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 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link

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 (fifteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

confront a alligator, let it eat you raw

j., Tuesday, 21 November 2017 06:27 (six years ago) link

Is this the gravediggaz jam session

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

This album is sublime.

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

BANG YOUR HEAD

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

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

calzino, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 10:01 (six years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

6 feet deep is 25 years old today...

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

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.

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

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

ciderpress, Friday, 9 August 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

really good production by Prince Paul is the appeal

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

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

del griffith, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link

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

calzino, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

fine album is it, not listened in years like.

calzino, Friday, 9 August 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

never understood why shakey doesnt like this

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

why are you here, again?

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

Damn good question

JackMyFruit, Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:07 (two years ago) link

I grew up deceived, by wicked enemies

JackMyFruit, Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:08 (two years ago) link

well kindly licky deez

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

^another defeated devil

JackMyFruit, Thursday, 20 January 2022 06:14 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

i be that sick lunatic with a devilish poem

is a great rza line

Heez, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 14:00 (five months ago) link

it's that time of year again

Left, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 14:20 (five months ago) link

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 (five months ago) link

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

omar little, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:14 (five months ago) link

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 (five months ago) link

BLOOD
BROTHERS
ALL IN TOGETHER

real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:59 (five months ago) link


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