Track Listing

1. Just When You Thought It Was Over (Intro) - Leroy & The Drivers
2. Constant Elevation - Gravediggaz, Allen Toussaint
3. Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide
4. Defective Trip (Trippin') - Gravediggaz, John Ussery
5. 2 Cups of Blood
6. Blood Brothers
7. 360 Questions
8. 1-800-Suicide - Booker T. & the MG's, Gravediggaz, Just-Ice, KRS-One
9. Diary of a Madman
10. Mommy, What's a Gravedigga? - Gravediggaz,
11. Bang Your Head
12. Here Comes the Gravediggaz
13. Graveyard Chamber
14. Death Trap - Gravediggaz, The Whole Darn Family
15. 6 Feet Deep
16. Rest in Peace (Outro)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4871 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Import

Customer Reviews

Horrocore
Gravediggaz have founded a new style of hip-hop. The production of rzarector (rza) and the undertaker (prince paul) is appropriately gruesome. This is just so different to any other cd i own, listening to it you enter the scary but fascinating world of the gravediggaz. Whoever's on the mic does a good job, i was particularly impressed by the Grym Reaper though.

superbly crafted dark album.....
normally i'm not one for rap and prefer old-skool hip-hop rather than listen to any of the new samey stuff....but when i heard this album (after a couple of dre and wu tang offerings...) i was amazed at how well thought out this album was. the songs themselves are well written and well sung, the music itself adds to the overall effect of darkness and the impending journey straight to hell after one's death....a must for any record collection....nuff said me thinks!!

A few storeys above the top drawer
No one who owns this album would dare to give it less than 5 stars. It's a modern classic and about that there is no doubt. Put it next to Dr Dre's "The Chronic" or NWA's "Straight outta Compton" and it's ruder, darker, more twisted and just as well produced and performed, if not better. Now you've got an idea of the stature of this album.

Looking at the sleeve and trying to decide which tracks merit some mention I realise they all do. Each in their own way are solid slices of hellish, hip-hop mayhem. Whether slowish and melancholic like '1-800 Suicide' or 'Diary of a Madman' or raging like 'Bang Your Head' they all deliver. The beats are just so wildly done, filled with the angry energy of the album they simply hit like a rock of crystal would.

Some of the skits are brilliantly done, far more theatrical and message bringing than some homies joking stoned while the producer quietly catched them on tape. Like the intro to "Defective trip (trippin')", which really displays the dark underbelly of urban America in all its horror.

It's simply a monumental album - as social commentary, as the definer of the sub-genre 'horror-rap' (try some Dr Octagon for more), as a piece of musical theatre given the excellent skits and hellish personas taken on by the Wu tang associates and so much more.

There isn't really much else to say about it other than it should always be played very loudly.