― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:45 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
"NIGHTMARE ON MY STREET," BITCHEZ!!!!!
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 07:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost OTM 'bang yr head' is def my favourite these days!
― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 09:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
2 Poetic - The Grym ReaperFrukwan - The GatekeeperRZA - The RZArector (do you see?!)Prince Paul - The Undertaker
― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― BbetaA, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
1-800-suicide PWNZ.
― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter $.., Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Matt B. (Matt B.), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:17 (nineteen 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
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
You can't come backNo 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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
GUILTY
― j., Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
Suicide it's a suicide
― i'd rather zing like a man, than FP like a coward (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 August 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Hilarious!
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 10 August 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
This album is a masterwork
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
It sure is
― calzino, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
ah, relying my dodgy old memory here.
― calzino, Monday, 12 August 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
Back in the days of Lee's and BVD'sI grew up deceived, by wicked enemiesMy lifespan began to dim in the errorWhen you can't even trust the man in the mirrorNow Gravedigga n****z receive my trustand like Christ, we walk among the thieves and the slutsI bring stress like skins on PMSThe street's a bloody mess, there ain't no EMFin sight my thoughts are to leave the slumsI hustle with beats and drums not keys and gunsMy feet are numb, as I walk my dogsI cut off the fogs with the Gravedigga swordsLife parole, as me and my man is violatedHookers are neutered and spay-tedSnakes are decapitated, and castratedN****z is lost your whole Ark is bein raidedShows today are hectic, n****z'll wreck shitLift off rounds and jet quickThis piece is gettin heatedCause a rush, a stampedinDevils 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 (two years ago) link
N****z
― JackMyFruit, Thursday, 20 January 2022 05:55 (two 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
i be that sick lunatic with a devilish poem
is a great rza line
― Heez, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 14:00 (six months ago) link
it's that time of year again
― Left, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 14:20 (six 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 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9yIGeBPnyE
― omar little, Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:14 (six 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 (six months ago) link
BLOODBROTHERSALL IN TOGETHER
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:59 (six months ago) link