best track on "6 feet deep"

this is a classic record to me

prob go for "mommy what's a gravedigga?" even tho it's like a minute and a half with 30 sec spoken intro

detective trip is the best , this album rules!!

defective trip

niggamortis

Yeah do ahhhhh maggots get drunk when they bury alcoholics?

Probably Bang Your Head for me, I love the drums on Death Trap as well.

Like, I don't even know what my best song on this whole record would be, but

Wanna see something that'll make ya sick?
Stand in front of jets on the Gaza Strip

is one of my favorite opening lines of all time.

This is pretty much the best (vaguely) Wu related album ever released. So many classic tunes on it ("Bang Your Head" is the only one I tend skip because of that awful heavy metal sound on it), but gotta go for "Diary of a Madman" for the epic theremin sample, as well as having the most memorable line on the whole album:

I've been examined ever since I was semen
They took a sonogram and saw the image of a demon

I think everyone who raps on 6 Feet Deep is in top form (RZA has never sounded better), but it's really Poetic/Grym Reaper who shines the brightest. RIP.

1-800 Suicide was my favourite at the time and still is. The version of the album I got on vinyl was called Niggamortis, where did this Six Feet Deep imposter come from? Pity they never followed up with anything as good, but what a hard act to follow.

Wasn't Niggamortis the UK title and 6 Feet Deep the US?

Love this record - good Portishead remix of Nowhere to Run too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPPAuOTODjk&feature=related

Some people like cheeba, some like brew,
I get mad lifted off four gallons of glue,
Pretty soon I spin like a top, in the middle of the room
And the shit won't stop!
Now what I see when I triiiiippppp.......
The rats in the basement all start to flip,
All through my building, from door to door,
I swear there's a fire, so I piss on the floor,
Now down the corridor was old fat Ned,
Schemin' on a blowjob from a crackhead,
He was like `hey wanna piece little man? '
I was like `yo, I'm better off with my haaaannnndddd!!!!!!!'
Oh shit, reality returns,
I need another hit but the glue won't burn,
I'm cuckoo and murderous, just plain nuts,
Smokin' sodium menthol cigarette butts,
And trippin'....

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/gravediggaz/#share

I remember reading a Prince Paul interview where he said he was really proud of his beats on this album, and got depressed/jaded when it didn't get much recognition. That Psychoanalysis album was sort of a "alright, well fuck you then" to the industry.

to the zig zag z

It was "niggamortis" in the EU and "6 feet deep" in the US, at least at first. My copy is called "niggamortis", I put the US title because I'd got the idea that they'd changed it at some point so they were all called "6 feet deep". I might be wrong though, I'm pretty sure I've seen copies called 6 feet deep in HMV in recent years.. There's an extra track on the EU cut as well, I can't remember which one.

The beats on this album are really good, some of them have this weird staccato, slightly off feel which makes my chest go a little bit tight when I'm listening to it. The words are great, twisted and funny, it might be the best wu-related album, yeah (disclaimer I haven't heard them all) of the ones I've got it's either this or liquid swords? It's an underrated album, I don't see it mentioned too often, good though it is.

bang yo head!

i have such an affection for 1-800 suicide i might vote that so it gets a least one vote.

its ok dude i voted for it

aw suicide buddies! *high five*

*commits suicide*

noooooooooooooooo!

i love that track

me 3

I'm with Tuomas, that's the only track I'll skip, too.

BANG, YOUR, MOTHER, FUCKING, HEAD

I think this album gets dismissed as gimicky by some people "lol horrorcore, remember that shit?" in the same way, say, Blowout Comb gets written off, "lol jazzy boho rap, remember that shit?".

I love this album, but I can't remember the name of the track I like best. It's got this awesome descending bassline, almost Public Enemy style... Dang dang dang dun dun dom dom dom...

Blood Brothers for me. Classic album.

As for RZA beats, the Pick, the Sickle and Shovel the is about his 2nd or 3rd best album (after Forever and Ghost Dog).

Two tabs of mescaline!

1-800 suicide kinda helped me cope with a friend's death in a weird way

be like richard pryor, set your balls on fire
better yet, go hang yourself with a barbed wire

Just a question. Has there ever been a similar example of dark gallows wit/psychedelia/genius production in the history of hip hop? Just interested because I have never found it.

Most of the stuff as lyrically dark as this doesn't have beats like this, and most of the stuff with beats like this isn't as dark as this. Maybe the closest you're going to get is Wu-Tang solo albums?

It doesn't exactly meet those criteria, but I'd recommend Rubberroom's "Architechnology", Mr. Parrot.

this shit is kind of a musical precursor to season 4 of the wire imo, which also has this imagery equating life in drug-affected and violent sections of a city w/a horror film.

maybe metabolics by mr. dead? nowhere near as good but good enough.

I completely forgot how awesome the production is on the song 6 feet deep.

Closest combination of great beats / weird-dark vibe is probably Dr Octogon.

Diary Of A Madman is what I'm voting for!

Insane Poetry "Grim Reality" had some of the horror movie aspects, especially on the first side. Not as good by a long shot, but two years earlier.

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i was obsessed with this album when i was 17. listened to it nonstop. still one of my favorite rap albums. voting 2 cups of blood because no one else will and because i once rapped all of grym reapers parts at a wedding with a dude i met an hour earlier.

this is tough

1-800-suicide!

awesome story btw, moreno.

one of the best albums ever

voted blood brothers

always loved this line though i have zero clue what it references if anything

"After watching Jackie Gleason/Walk into a precinct/Gun down a Captain for no fuckin' reason"

When I first heard it I thought it might be a reference to a scene in some 70's blaxploitation pic. Jackie Gleason is way off my radar as an Englisher. Your right though it is a fucking wonderful line and is darkly evocative and exciting. Even if you haven't got a fucking clue what they are on about.

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HERECOMESTHEDRASTIC ... tchaaa, psyche!

I should play this album once a day, I think

One of my all time favorite album covers

btw frukwan's wiki page refers to him as a "moorish american hip hop musician"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frukwan

Around the corridor was old fat Ned...