Nowhere To Run

Yep, another hip-hop CD maxi-single for today's lesson, this one culled from one of my top 5 rap albums of all time. I'm of course speaking of Gravediggaz's seminal 6 Feet Deep (or Niggamortis for all you Europeans reading) and its first single "Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide". I'm pretty sure this was released both domestic and internationally - regardless I've combined the two CDs into one file. You get the album version, a radio edit, acapella, instrumental and two bonus songs I've never heard anywhere else. "Freak The Sorceress" is the closest thing the band will ever come to a sex rhyme (trust me, it's hilarious) and "The Reincarnation Of Freud" is a cool minute-long sample track - great to hear the original band at their peak in 1994. Enjoy.

Nowhere To Hide

And just when you thought it was over...

 

Probably my favorite rap album of all time, 6 Feet Deep (or Niggamortis if you live in the UK - a way better title) is the debut album by NYC 's the Gravediggaz, a virtual supergroup of rappers: Stetsasonic's Prince Paul (The Undertaker) and Frukwan (The Gatekeeper), Wu-Tang's RZA (The Rzarector) and Too Poetic (The Grym Reaper). Part of the relatively small "horror-rap" wave of the early 90's, the Gravediggaz and their ilk (Flatlinerz being the most notable partner in crime) helped assure white suburbia and the uptight suits in the PMRC that armageddeon was truly upon us. Black people rapping??? About HORROR movies?!?!? What could be next but the judgement of mankind? But in reality, this is an amazing album, rhymes are flowing and beats are huge, definitely each rappers' best work in my opinion. Suicide, LSD, murder, grave-robbing; it's all covered in just over 52 minutes. They've released some albums since (and Too Poetic sadly passed on in 2001) but none equal this debut. Enjoy.

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