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6 Feet Deep

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1994....Dark Humor

The Early 90's were a really hard time to be a teenager,
Everybody was trying to be hard. Gangs were hip.
The first world trade bombing. School violence.

I was in 11th Grade, And The Gravediggaz spoke to me.
The frustration I felt in life. They spoke of how silly
suicide can be, and talk about nightmares and hallucinations.
Things that many a people go through, but rarely heard about in music.

Flawed,Yes They were all flawed individuals, But that was there

beauty.They spoke from there heart.Yes it is dark and bleak,
but those are very true human emotions. Grym reap was a homeless man before music gave him
another chance..

Many rappers today speak of popping shots and toting glocks.
with no mention of why they are angry and why they are mad.
the Gravedgiggaz didn't treat the listner like an 8 year old
they made great use of the English language.

Poetry.........This is an album i will play for the rest of my life, It speaks of the suffering and haunted mind that horrific events can give some of us.

About three nights ago I listened to this whole album from the intro to the finale after picking it up at Tower Records, and I have only one word to say about it... DAMN! This impressed me from the first five seconds of "Constant Elavation" to the closing few seconds of the last song. That is the track("Constant Elavation") after the eerie intro that starts off the album with a boom, at only 2:30 it can't be considered a full filled banger, but more of a starter track. The next track is a crowd favorite in "Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide". That song has great energy as well as does the rest of the album, and something special(along with an amazing beat), that makes this a hit. As I said, one HUGE thing about this album is the crazy energy that it brings more than any other album I have ever heard. It has amazing production and lyrics that can touch anyone. I actually heard of this when I was searching for more classic albums in listamanias of classic Rap albums. This appeared quite a few times, and when I saw it at Tower I said, "Well, I might not see it again, so I'll check it out..." THE ONE THING THAT REAAALLY CAME OUT HUGE AS A FACTOR IN THIS ALBUM WAS HOW REAL AND DOWN TO EARTH IT WAS. THIS WAS RELEASED IN THE 90'S WHILE SOME HARD TIMES WERE GOING DOWN. THIS ALBUM HELPS ALL THE PROBLEMS TEENAGERS HAVE, AND CAN ACTUALLY TEACH. But anyway, the next track is the longest one, and an amazing hook makes this one of the best songs. The next full song is "Blood Brothers", and this is also amazing track, talking about how love for brothers comes first... Always. Great hook. Ahh, the next full song is track eight and it is named "1-800-Suicide" but i'm sure you all know this one. This was the biggest hit on the album and has a great cameo by KRS-1. This song was the favorite track in the other reviews, and I can't say i'm any different. This is a great song that talks all about the problems and stupidity of suicide. However... We knew it was too good to be true, i'm not going to be a huge fan who says this album is perfect, well it's not. After the super track the album goes nothing but downhill and almost point less from there. It is still great music but nothing compared to the earlier tracks. It is as if the albums builds up to "1-800-Suicide", and then drops down again. Another thing I do not like about this album is that it really irritates me when they are trying to make a serious point on a track, and then one of them says an abnoxious phrase or they play a laughing noise. That really confuses and annoys me. But anyway, simply amazing album and classic up there right behind "Straight Outta Compton", "The Chronic", "Illmatic", like at a possible top twenty-five ranking.
Extremely highly recommended for any person who collects classic Rap albums. You will fall in love with this if you also love: Blackstar, early Mobb Deep, 2Pac, Nas, and really any hardcore early 90's Rap.

PIRATE-

P.S.- Check out my LISTAMANIA for Most Under rated Rap Albums Ever, which this belongs on!

PIRATE-

This album is a classic, very very dark production in this album,this album has very dark humor but its mad funny,this album is known for the singles 1-800 Suicide(they had mad remixes to that song),Nowhere to Run, Diary Of A Madman (this was Killah Priest's first appearance not B.I.B.L.E.) and i think thats it.my favorite tracks are Defective Trip (Trippin'),2 Cups Of Blood, Blood Brothers (my favorite track on the album,plus the beat is hot),Diary Of A Madman (another one of my favorites hot ass beat,plus the video for this song is bananas),Mommy, What's A Gravedigga?,Bang Your Head,Here Come The Gravediggaz, and Graveyard Chamber, this album here is a classic, this came out in 1994,when horrorcore was big and there was a dispute with Gravediggaz Vs Flatlinerz that they were the originators of Horrorcore but in fact the original originator of horrorcore is none other than Esham, but he doesn't call it horrorcore he calls it acid rap.This album is recommended for people who like dark production and dark humor,horrorcore,wu tang, hopefully this review was helpful, p.s this album was originally named N*ggamortis but had to be named 6 Feet Deep becasue it's self explanatory, plus in N*ggamortis there was a hot hot song called Pass The Shovel, but when they renamed it to 6 feet deep it didn't make the album don't know why but oh well, hopefully once again found this review helpful. peace.

This is a CLASSIC album. Though Wu-Tang related, it has a different feel then most other Wu releases. First off, the production is dark and eerie, yet no less amazing. The lyrics accompany the beats perfectly. The overall atmosphere of the album is unique and mesmerizing. There are plenty of classics on here. Peep "Trippin," "Here Come the Gravediggaz," "Mommy What's a Gravedigga?," and "1-800 Suicide," which is one of the greatest rap songs of all time. But almost every song on here is hip hop at its finest. This album belongs in any avid rap listeners collection. If you don't have it, pick it up, NOW!

This is probably the only cd that ever truly saw the light of day from the underappreciated subgenre known as "horror-core" rap. This album that was put together by Prince Paul and the RZA, combines hip hop beats, spooky polyrhythms, and creepy lyrics. 6 Feet Deep is a stellar album.

If you like this album, don't buy the second one (The Pick, The Sickle, and The Shovel), because it is nothing like this one and is pretty bad. It is not produced by the same people and is way too 'serious'. Unfortunately, it seems that the original Gravediggaz concept has called 1-800 SUICIDE.

The fact that there are two awesome producers on this album, Prince Paul and RZA alone makes this album very interesting. Along with Frukwan and Too Poetic, they came out in '94 under the name Gravediggaz with the debut "6 Feet Deep" (or "Niggamortis"). A horricore rap album that was very appealing. To make things even more intersting, everyone changed their name as well.

There is not much to say here about this album. The production is well innovative by RZA or Rzarector who does more rapping than producing, and Prince Paul or Thee Undertaker who does the opposite. As for the rhymes, they are excellent too. "Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide" is one that has excellent beats and rhymes to fit it's concept. Too Poetic or Grymreaper is good and entertaining on "Defective Trip (Trippin')".

Guests are on this album as well. Scientific Shabazz and Killah Priest appear on two tracks "Graveyard Chamber" and "Diary Of A Madman". Masta Ace appears on "Here Comes The Gravediggaz". And others known like MC Search and Biz Markie do some of the background vocals on "Defective Trip". And KRS-One does thoese vocals to "1-800-Suicide".

As for anything bad. I believe "Bang Your Head" and the title track "6 Feet Deep" didn't appeal to me. The latter song was because the chorus came in spelling out the group's name over and over again. Other than that this is one excellent project. It kind of sucks that innovative albums like this don't come out anymore. It's albums like "6 Feet Deep" that made rap so fun to listen to. It's sad that Gravediggaz probably won't be making no more albums, due to the death of Too Poetic after he passed away from colon cancer back in 2001. After hearing this album, I will check out their 1997 follow up "The Pick, The Sickle, and The Shovel", and their 2002 album "Nightmare In A Minor". This album is excellent. Even if you're a Wu-Tang fan or a De La Soul fan, this should grab your intrest.

Just for the record: This was not the first horrorcore album made. Artists like Esham and Insane Clown Posse have been doing this way before this album dropped. This one just received the most recognition.

Lyrics: A-
Production: A+
Guest Appearances: A-
Musical Vibes: A-
Overall: A-

Favorite Tracks: Constant Elevation, Nowhere To Run Nowhere To Hide, Defective Trip (Trippin'), 1-800 Suicide, Diary Of A Madman, Here Comes The Gravediggaz, Deathtrap

Peace Everyone!!!

I'm gonna keep this real short. Every song on this joint is on point. I'm still bumpin this 10 years after it was released! I will still be bumpin this 10 years from now. Please do yourself a favor and cop this immediatly if you don't already have it.

I am not giving this album 5 stars because it doesn't fit into my ideas of a perfect rap album and it doesn't break alot of boundaries. That said, this album is perfect at something, being evil. The Gravediggaz have a formula: lay a dirty drum track, add a distorted, sloppy, hooky instrumental melody(in some cases there are nuances, but....) and spit some sick evil lyrics over it. I mean they aren't getting explicitly descriptive, not all the time anyway, but they are saying horrible things. Tipper Gore would have a field day with the Gravediggaz especially a song like 1-800-SUICIDE, as a matter of fact, I think any parent who hears this album will begin to worry about their kids. Prince Paul's production is up to his usual high standards and the tracks are inspired... again. RZA spits his signature drunken style(only slightly less so than ODB) raps. Getting back to the formula thing, the formula rarely falters. And they have a wonderful sense of humor about the whole thing, and even if they didn't, thier lyrics are so dark it doesn't matter. The Gravediggaz is the music the chick from the exorcist would listen to. This album is EXTRA dark, their second CD is not as dark and features more production from WU camp members. This is a great album to listen to; I highly recommend it. A footnote: there was a time in the Mid-90's when some were predicting horrorcore would be "the next big thing", the Gravediggaz were the reason why.

As a huge hip-hop fan, i can easily say that this is one of the five best rap albums ever. Initially dismissed as a gimmick, this album is a result of the frustration at the time of the four members. The meaning of many of the lyrics becomes clearer after multiple listens, and the production is among Prince Paul's best. The album is similar to Prince Paul's other recent work at the time, De La's "Buhloone Mindstate", which is also dark, humorous, and basically brilliant, in that few people bought the albums but no one who has heard them can dislike them. My two roommates, who both hated rap when i met them, now consider 6 Feet Deep as one of their favorite albums. Anyway, just buy the damn disc and you won't be disappointed.

Gravediggaz "6 feet deep" should be in every hip-hop fans collection. Even though kinda disappared off the map (I believe one of their members died) and have released a handful of albums since this release, this album is flawless. Gravediggaz spit chunks of lyrics at you, which hit ou in the face, and knock you down. The album is dark and errie, and if there was ever a label to put on this, how bout death-rap (you got death-metal, so why not) The bands beats are killer to, which will push your speakers to excurstions that might just put them in the red zone. This is a treaure of classic hip-hip, and this is a prime example of what is missing from todays hip-hop scene. If you are mostly in the new-school hip-hop, dump your 50 Cent and Ja Rule CD's for a few days, and put this in your CD player. You might just never go back to the new stuff, as I never have even come close to it, and its CD's like this which is my main reason for staying away from MTV generated hip-hop. ENJOY