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

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