So the first verse is Shabazz the Disciple, who is not actually a member of Gravediggaz, and the third verse is Killah Priest, also not a member. Rza and Frukwan (Rzarector and The Gatekeeper) are the second and fourth verses respectively, and they are members. There are two other members who don't have verses, which are Prince Paul (the Undertaker) and Ill Poetic (The Grym Reaper). Being a Wu-Tang nerd, this is all interesting to me. Shabazz the Disciple and Killah Priest both made their debuts with the verses here, and went on to be two of the more prolific extracurricular Wu-Tang affiliates, both as members of the Sunz Of Man group. i know nobody cares.
I've been listening to this song for 25 years, never gets old. People say you change as you get older but I'm White and in my 40's and still listening to this CD LOL.
Do people actually realize how fucking ILL this, and hip-hop as a whole, was at this time?!! The creativity, the elite level rhyming... I mean... [throws hands up and walks away]
This is something i may have listened to in the third grade thinking i was edgy or something but this is pretty gay. Along with icp and brother lynch and twisted and all that gayness
”The cause of death is unknown to the cops, cause when i kill em’, i’m not leavin one element to autopse! First i’ll assasinate em, & then i’ll cremate em, and take all of his fuckin ashes and evaporate em, or kreep thru da graveyard, and hunt down your toombstone, dig up your skeleton and stomp all your f*****’ bones you try to haunt me n**** i ain’t tryna hear it, BUCK-BUCK-BUCK- I give ya ass a holy spirit”
Here is the 1992 RNS /RZA produced hq instrumental used for wu tang demo tape th-cam.com/video/icVVl6SotaQ/w-d-xo.html rza and the undertaker would later remake this beat in 1994 for this track but also give production credit to RNS for providing the original co production in 92 .peace
@Robert Duca.....I guess you could say I'm odd man out......I haven't a fb, Instagram or any social media. Thought about fb........but the lone wolf is strong with this one....hah. I like being nobody from nowhere.
The 1st Gravediggas album will always be timeless to me,it was 4 pissed off artists letting their anger of the industry & turning it into a soundscape.CLASSIC!
Here is the 1992 RNS /RZA produced hq instrumental used for wu tang demo tape th-cam.com/video/icVVl6SotaQ/w-d-xo.html rza and the undertaker would later remake this beat in 1994 for this track but also give production credit to RNS for providing the original co production in 92 .peace
he's actually a modern genius. this was just a troubling moment in his life. the journey of a master is fraught with peril. especially when you realize the truth. only the strong can survive the metamorphosis
"he's actually a modern genius. this was just a troubling moment in his life. the journey of a master is fraught with peril. especially when you realize the truth. only the strong can survive the metamorphosis" i couldnt agree more with that my man keep it real
@@joerivandeweyer3056 Kool G Rap's Executioner Style was pretty grimey. He's more into that Italian Mobster type rap. Notible mentions while we're on the darkest side of Hip Hop... Natural Born Killaz - Dre and Cube. Devils Son - Big L, and anything from Necro lol
The Best Rapper/Producers of all time... Has got be Dr Dre, Rza, and Havoc... I love Q-Tip as well, But he didn't have as many albums produced Tracks as Dr Dre and Rza. Dre clocks in at about close to 90 and Rza I think was about 70.. And don't forget DJ Primere with well over 100. But he doesn't Rap like Dre Rza and Havoc.
Danny Galaxxy Premo doesn't rap so you can't throw them in there. The reason I don't consider Dre is because he doesn't write his rhymes. Hav and Rza write their rhymes and hold there own against their counter parts. Da Doggpound and Snoop and Eminem always by far overshadow Dre's verse, even though one of them wrote it.
I used to get the same response from my people in NYC. When I listened to Goodie Mob, Master P, and a bunch of artists from other states that wasn't in the Northeast. They ain't know. haha.
This song is so crazy to me man. I’m 30 now and I remember being 5 years old and my older cousin made me recite “Sneak in the grave yard and hunt down ya tombstone pick up ya skeleton stomp all ya f*ckin bones” every damn day. I haven’t heard this song in 25 years and my mother briefly mentioned gravediggaz yesterday so I had to go look. Wow man. What a trip.
I'm an old school metal head but this song is one of my favorites that's come out of hip hop scene. I don't think they make them like before..(music in general)
Horrorcore was always an interesting subgenre of rap. It also helps that some good artists use their experience in the streets. Big L is probably the best example.
So dark. So gritty. So scary. And then you hear, 🔨🔨🔨🔨"Guilty!" I laugh every time 😂😂😂 (Especially cuz the lawyer said, "Don't worry, guys. The judge is my uncle.")
Johnny Mathis samples of No Love But Your Love and Warm and Tender woven together by one of the master producers to ever grace the art of hip hop to create this amazing tapistry behold it's a masterpiece hard to the core ear drums is left sore. thank u Gravediggaz.
A friend introduced me to Gravediggaz in the mid 90s. I later found out that there was this whole 'Horrorcore' rap subgenre, but from what I can see no-one did it better than Gravediggaz...
I remember when this and Liquid Swords dropped... I was stunned at the quality. People slept on Gravediggaz and Grym Reaper never lived to see a new generation discover this gem of hiphop. RIP Ill Poetic
"At birth nurses surrounded me with needles and drugged me up with diseases of evil" if you ask me Shabbaz' s whole verse is one of the greatest in rap history
I remember getting the promo tape (white tape) in 1993. I was freaked out how good it was. It was way, way ahead of its time. To this day, it's still my favorite track of all time.
"When I CRY IN MY EYE!! AHHH!!!!" One night I repeated this song well over 12 times in an aparment complex....In one night the neighbor on the first floor bitched about the noise, then his pipes burst.I swear the song did it...
I saw this video on tik tok talking about this particular song. I was about to scroll until he said "Rza" and it got my attention. Now I'm addicted to the first verse.
Back then I was a teenager who was soo into Death Metal/heavy metal and hearing this was fucking holy shit I was like fuck yeah, this is what hip hop should sound like
Damn man, this is the first time i've heard of Gravediggaz. Im fuckin' hooked! I'd ask what other songs you'd all recommend, but I see that they have a small discography, i'll just check em all out.
All album the pick, the sickle and thé shovel...its à classic with a da bomb pit of snakes, hidden emotion and on the top Never gonna come back, Elimiation process !
yes this one is nicee !! i also like notorious big's first verse, which i heard was on dolly my baby by super cat. 2 of them are just on the top of the list
"I'll creep through the graveyard and hunt down your tombstone Dig up your Skeleton and stomp all your fucking bones" - Coldest rap bar in hip hop history.
"Bare witness as I exercise my exorcism." One of the best opening lines ever.
I always understand "be a witness"
@TrannyClowns so I was hearing it right, thanks
How is you stupid? So being a demon is cool since when? 😅Dam y’all retarded. This shit sounds stewpid as hell
same. Be a witness, bare witness. @@obornyi2407
C'mon nobody was speaking like that.. Gods took it to another level..
So the first verse is Shabazz the Disciple, who is not actually a member of Gravediggaz, and the third verse is Killah Priest, also not a member. Rza and Frukwan (Rzarector and The Gatekeeper) are the second and fourth verses respectively, and they are members. There are two other members who don't have verses, which are Prince Paul (the Undertaker) and Ill Poetic (The Grym Reaper). Being a Wu-Tang nerd, this is all interesting to me. Shabazz the Disciple and Killah Priest both made their debuts with the verses here, and went on to be two of the more prolific extracurricular Wu-Tang affiliates, both as members of the Sunz Of Man group. i know nobody cares.
Eric we care dude cheers
cool ma nigga
lived the era and didn't know it - props for the knowledge
Shabazz is not part of sunz of man he's solo
i care. Another Wu nerd here
I've been listening to this song for 25 years, never gets old. People say you change as you get older but I'm White and in my 40's and still listening to this CD LOL.
"I been examined ever since I was semen... they took the sonogram and seen the image - of a DEMON!" Honestly one of my favourite rhymes ever.
Shabazz murdered this 🔥🔥
Early edgelords ;)
Línea inigualable
Equivalent to a Pulitzer prize winner....
So powerful, deep ...
Hahaha this one cracks me up
Do people actually realize how fucking ILL this, and hip-hop as a whole, was at this time?!! The creativity, the elite level rhyming... I mean... [throws hands up and walks away]
Listened to this as a 14 year old when it came out. It was another level
They don't.
@@jekyllynch6168 100% I was twelve. Remember listening to this with my friend all the time. 🙌🙌
This is something i may have listened to in the third grade thinking i was edgy or something but this is pretty gay. Along with icp and brother lynch and twisted and all that gayness
@@justinhughes4119 Cool story bro.
Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is masterpiece!
I almost forgot to listen to this today
I'm back 2022
It definitely is my dad told me about these guys an It really suck we don’t got any rap groups like this today. Or like the Wu tang
”The cause of death is unknown to the cops, cause when i kill em’, i’m not leavin one element to autopse! First i’ll assasinate em, & then i’ll cremate em, and take all of his fuckin ashes and evaporate em, or kreep thru da graveyard, and hunt down your toombstone, dig up your skeleton and stomp all your f*****’ bones you try to haunt me n**** i ain’t tryna hear it, BUCK-BUCK-BUCK- I give ya ass a holy spirit”
It's sad. They should own the disc.
Hip-hop will never sound like this again. Thank God for these beautiful memories being around during this Era.
NEVER.
This beat..........wish it was more like this. Thank God for Havoc.
One of the creepiest and most chilling beats of all time
Here is the 1992 RNS /RZA produced hq instrumental used for wu tang demo tape
th-cam.com/video/icVVl6SotaQ/w-d-xo.html rza and the undertaker would later remake this beat in 1994 for this track but also give production credit to RNS for providing the original co production in 92 .peace
No. Doubt.....I thought the same first time I heard it mid 90s....still stands in the sickest way possible.
Yep, dat beat is precise
@Robert Duca.....I guess you could say I'm odd man out......I haven't a fb, Instagram or any social media. Thought about fb........but the lone wolf is strong with this one....hah. I like being nobody from nowhere.
You need to listen to "Head Neck Apartheid" by Necro! The second verse is fire!
“I’ve been examined since I was semen, they took a sonogram and seen the image of a demon”. Man digs deep
Adam Carless 6 feet precisely.
hard bar
Adam Carless : Shabazz is cold blooded 🔥🔥
6 inches too be exact.
@@Brawling_Style *6 feet get ur facts right homie
this had barz, beats the whole package.. rza did his thing on this one.. their album was fire.. damn
+TR RCH damn right my nikka, ths shit is so slept on
+TR RCH straight up man
is it ODB who speaks the first interlude?
+erikbarrett85 2015 Still listening to this crazy song RZA at his best miss 90s golden era check out this is sick
+TR RCH Prince Paul produced most of this album as "The Undertaker", though Rza produced a handful
i'm 41 and still can't get enough...
Now you're 43. How about now?
@@RandomDude-bo1lg :P
Ha same here 41 copped this tape the day it came out but first recorded the video on VHS lol
@@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551 that was the spirit
Lol some deep dark part of my soul has to hear this once joint once in a while.
The 1st Gravediggas album will always be timeless to me,it was 4 pissed off artists letting their anger of the industry & turning it into a soundscape.CLASSIC!
How the HELL did RZA make a beat like this in the 90s? and his freaken verse, wtf? ! timeless classic.
Prince paul made the beat not rza,
+veekay But RZA has already made this beat in Wu Tang Demo - 1992.
veekay RNS came up wit the sample👐🏿
veekay rza made the beat Prince Paul produced everything else on the album
Here is the 1992 RNS /RZA produced hq instrumental used for wu tang demo tape
th-cam.com/video/icVVl6SotaQ/w-d-xo.html rza and the undertaker would later remake this beat in 1994 for this track but also give production credit to RNS for providing the original co production in 92 .peace
RZA is one crazy dude
he's actually a modern genius. this was just a troubling moment in his life. the journey of a master is fraught with peril. especially when you realize the truth. only the strong can survive the metamorphosis
dimviesel does that mine ur good at maths
+dimviesel I'm so confused, did someone reply to you then delete their own comments.
"he's actually a modern genius. this was just a troubling moment in his
life. the journey of a master is fraught with peril. especially when you
realize the truth. only the strong can survive the metamorphosis" i couldnt agree more with that my man keep it real
Nik Pavlin Amen
Listening july 2024? 💟
This album was insane . So underrated in my top 10 albums of all time .
What was the name
@@geranobeks it had two names!
I bought this album on tape I'm 42 crazy .
@@geranobeks 6 Feet Deep / Niggamortis
Loved the title track at the end of the album "6 Feet Deep"😁
The darkest side of Hip Hop. Gravediggaz 4 life.
Kool G Rap though
The Birth of Horrorcore
@@joerivandeweyer3056 Kool G Rap's Executioner Style was pretty grimey. He's more into that Italian Mobster type rap. Notible mentions while we're on the darkest side of Hip Hop... Natural Born Killaz - Dre and Cube. Devils Son - Big L, and anything from Necro lol
$uicideboy$ remind me of this but nothing will ever be as good
Lord Infamous
Dopest underrated hip hop group ever to do it. RIP Poetic
Wow, I just got that "holey spirit" line.
Only took me 20 years, haha.
Haha why?
+Shlomo Schicklgruber Damn. I never thought about that.
+Johnny Smith he shots the skeleton *bop bop bop* so it gets "hole" in it,
IE: hole-y spirit :D
Right right lol
what a profile lmao
What a beautiful song, I wish there were more songs like these.
ah romance
+Lew Magroo 😘🙊😹
+Vzar pure lovemaking music
+Vzar MCesike ldch 28296 tfpt l701 R1143
such a cute song
2023 and this song still legend......These men need to be protected at all costs.
RZA laid down a sick verse. He has got to be the best producer/rapper of all time. Havoc of Mobb Deep also.
Havoc was insane
jon dunn Yeah its a toss up between the two. You can't go wrong either way with both.
Q TIP!
The Best Rapper/Producers of all time... Has got be Dr Dre, Rza, and Havoc... I love Q-Tip as well, But he didn't have as many albums produced Tracks as Dr Dre and Rza. Dre clocks in at about close to 90 and Rza I think was about 70.. And don't forget DJ Primere with well over 100. But he doesn't Rap like Dre Rza and Havoc.
Danny Galaxxy Premo doesn't rap so you can't throw them in there. The reason I don't consider Dre is because he doesn't write his rhymes. Hav and Rza write their rhymes and hold there own against their counter parts. Da Doggpound and Snoop and Eminem always by far overshadow Dre's verse, even though one of them wrote it.
shabazz opens this track up lovely
This whole album is a masterpiece
20 years ago today this album dropped. Still to this day, one of the best & 1 of my most played.
facts
Mad Ry I agree 1000%
I remember growing up as a 90s teen in Louisiana, jamming this shit, my friends thought I was tripping, but this go hard!
I used to get the same response from my people in NYC. When I listened to Goodie Mob, Master P, and a bunch of artists from other states that wasn't in the Northeast. They ain't know. haha.
madwithhats same but I'm Aussie
These comments are all my life!
The same for me in Houston.... ninjas didn't understand
I used to love cypress hill temples of boom,hell on Earth and this so much
This song is so crazy to me man. I’m 30 now and I remember being 5 years old and my older cousin made me recite “Sneak in the grave yard and hunt down ya tombstone pick up ya skeleton stomp all ya f*ckin bones” every damn day. I haven’t heard this song in 25 years and my mother briefly mentioned gravediggaz yesterday so I had to go look. Wow man. What a trip.
🤨😰
Your mother mentioned Gravediggaz? Lmao
@@Vingul you know our mother’s were once our age, right? Lol. She IS Hip Hop to her core bro lol. She grew up with this sound.
I'm an old school metal head but this song is one of my favorites that's come out of hip hop scene. I don't think they make them like before..(music in general)
LOA House this shit is total dark next to BONES "Hell Sent"
Horrorcore was always an interesting subgenre of rap. It also helps that some good artists use their experience in the streets. Big L is probably the best example.
you should check out necro if you aint already!
Same here.
Remember the Judgement Night soundtrack??!! 😍
@@haf816r Judgment night soundtrack was my shit when I was a kid! Still a favorite in 2019! 💯
one of my favorite albums till this day. !!
one of the best tracks I've ever heard, and the beat is magical.
rza's raw and gritty vocals gives me goosebumps and so does the story that goes along with this music video.
"im fighting a holy war in the mental"
That line stuck out for me too. The beat is eerie as fuck tho.
So dark.
So gritty.
So scary.
And then you hear, 🔨🔨🔨🔨"Guilty!"
I laugh every time 😂😂😂
(Especially cuz the lawyer said, "Don't worry, guys. The judge is my uncle.")
a group of nice young lads making beautiful music!
One of my favorite songs of all times, lyrics, rhymes and beat....
Prince Paul deserves primary credit for composing “Diary of a Madman”.
Amazing track!
Absolutely incredibly well written and flowed so damn good. A timeless classic
Accurate
Johnny Mathis samples of No Love But Your Love and Warm and Tender woven together by one of the master producers to ever grace the art of hip hop to create this amazing tapistry behold it's a masterpiece hard to the core ear drums is left sore. thank u Gravediggaz.
This beat was ill, hit with some cold ass lyrics...straight classic
"Stab you with the dagger up Jacob's ladder" This gotta be one of my favorite lines ever.
RZA is amazing.
Thats what I keep saying!...lol
He is genius
Jarl Ulfric yes!!!!
Although Wu is one of my all time favorite hip hop Groups, Gravediggaz is ranked in my top 5
Jarl Ulfric He usually is when he's not keeping a kick ass album from the masses.
One of the greatest horrorcore songs ever 😈😈😈😈🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This and flatliners live evil
Is that Cassidy?
A friend introduced me to Gravediggaz in the mid 90s. I later found out that there was this whole 'Horrorcore' rap subgenre, but from what I can see no-one did it better than Gravediggaz...
Jim Millman check out brotha lynch hung or twisted insane
Hadn't heard of those, thanks!
check flatlinerz mate lol
Necro is a good one too
One of the best in Horrorcore.
That song is brutal. It also has some full undertones. Love it
I remember when this and Liquid Swords dropped... I was stunned at the quality.
People slept on Gravediggaz and Grym Reaper never lived to see a new generation discover this gem of hiphop.
RIP Ill Poetic
Cultissime ! Ecouter en boucle à l'époque, ça rajeunit pas....Merci
I remember when this dropped , little did we know it was a pre curser to the best hip hop album Eva ✊🏽
I used to listen to this on repeat when this was released. Oh the good old days!
"At birth nurses surrounded me with needles and drugged me up with diseases of evil" if you ask me Shabbaz' s whole verse is one of the greatest in rap history
not exactly but still very good
Lol not even close
According to the top 50 Jay z is the best 😂😂😂 what a joke.
@@reco1l150 who do you recommend
@@nitnesto9195 who do you recommend
I remember getting the promo tape (white tape) in 1993. I was freaked out how good it was. It was way, way ahead of its time. To this day, it's still my favorite track of all time.
"When I CRY IN MY EYE!! AHHH!!!!" One night I repeated this song well over 12 times in an aparment complex....In one night the neighbor on the first floor bitched about the noise, then his pipes burst.I swear the song did it...
I saw this video on tik tok talking about this particular song. I was about to scroll until he said "Rza" and it got my attention. Now I'm addicted to the first verse.
Back in 97 we listened to this good day bro
killa priest dont get enough credit his words be devine
Priest on the next level ish ..cats don't wanna research his references
susspek : Killah Priest one of the G.O.A.T. 🔥🔥
He had the best verse
this and Flatlinerz are magic. The world sorely needs more RZA style beats.
RIp Grim your lyrics woke me up in my stress days of the 90s thank you for the release of the beast.
The lyrics are just fucking brutal, and that perfect beat to go along.. damn dope stuff👍👍👍
This Joint Needs To Get Played Madd Loud On Halloween 🎃🙌🔥👊
Tell me why I was thinking the same thing
Yeah...on the Hood Viking!!!!
Killah Priest dropped an album a few weeks ago and its dope to me it baffles me how he can spit so much knowledge in rhyme form
Hip hop is true genius and they are the kings 👑👑👑🔥🔥🔥🙏🏾❤❤hiphop 4eva
"ive been examined ever since i was semen,they took a sonograph and saw the image of a demon".
Fire 🔥 bar bro 🤣my dad
Put me on
One of the best songs ever made, for real.
Gravediggaz are forgotten by many. They had some bangers and were the precursor to a lot of Eminem and Tech N9ne's music.
The beat is ridiculous. One of my favorites
The Rza's verse is one of the most mad I've ever heard. So dope. The whole MC are so dopest.
Shabazz verse was hard. Damn
Used to smoke blunts to this album in 9th grade. The good days 😂
ese sonido de fondo suena muy chimbaaa!!! 2017 Y Aun sigue sonando este grupooo!!
That scene with the man in the chained straight jacket was straight up creepy.
First cypher HAS gotta rank in TOP 5 hardest verses EVER!
finna bump this on Halloween
every year! also will play flatlinerz
Mr100Ping This And Geto Boys-Mind’s Playing Tricks On Me.
Mr100Ping same lmao
Mr100Ping same
Mr100Ping So Did You?
Certified classic.
Real black metal rap🎉🎉🎉
Shabazz the Disciples hottest verse ever
check out "Crime Saga" too
First time hearing this and it's litt 💯🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Whole album was good. Also check desperados same era. Good shit
One of the HARDEST tracks ever!!!
Back then I was a teenager who was soo into Death Metal/heavy metal and hearing this was fucking holy shit
I was like fuck yeah, this is what hip hop should sound like
Daaaaaaamn .. First verse : I grew up in hell , now I dwell in Islamic temple .. Respect
I know this comment is 5 years old but some might say youve misinterpreted that metaphor.
Just giving my 2 cents
Inshrah allah
Los sietes la banda
Ginerization facts.
Ginerization what does it mean then
I wanna go back to when hip hop sounded like this. Back when they used creativity and lyricism
Damn man, this is the first time i've heard of Gravediggaz. Im fuckin' hooked! I'd ask what other songs you'd all recommend, but I see that they have a small discography, i'll just check em all out.
Definitely 1-800 suicide
@@jasonrodriguez12 👌👌👌💯💯💯
All album the pick, the sickle and thé shovel...its à classic with a da bomb pit of snakes, hidden emotion and on the top Never gonna come back, Elimiation process !
Check out death be the penalty!!!
th-cam.com/video/dLBVskbpHiE/w-d-xo.html
"Giving n*ggas brain dimples" is the hardest line ever
90’s was def the golden era of hip-hop
best era
Shabazz massacred the whole track with his verse. Easily one of the best verses in hip hop and the hardest opening in a rap joint.
Absolutely bro... 💯
My Pops Grew Up With Shabazz and Told Me About Him and I Must Say This Is Probably The Best Debut Verse Of Any Rapper Of All Time
yes this one is nicee !! i also like notorious big's first verse, which i heard was on dolly my baby by super cat. 2 of them are just on the top of the list
not even close. Nas's debut verse on Main Source is vastly superior.
Fat joe - watch out big puns debut verse kills
Shabazz is the main reazon people talk about this joint to this day
@@tochiRTA was going to post the same.
Makes me happy someone did before me.
Happy 30th Anniversary Gravediggaz 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥... R.I.P. Grym🙏🙏🙏
This whole album was on repeat in my tape deck
who else still got this on repeat in 2022🤘🏽
"I'll creep through the graveyard and hunt down your tombstone
Dig up your Skeleton and stomp all your fucking bones" - Coldest rap bar in hip hop history.
This song's fucking disturbing
In a really good way
2020 and still fire 🔥 90’s Rap is the illest !
Never hurt no one I used to listen to this at 14 years old with mates
“they took a sonogram and saw the image of a demon”
1st verse must be up there in the top 10 versus of all Hip Hop,crazy
My older brother was into hip hop and one of his cds was Gravediggaz. I really liked the sound of this album.
LEGENDS IN THIS SONG!!!
the capability of expressing your self like that is what i like to do
not only do they rap but they tell a story
2023 Checking in!! Shit goes as hard as it did upon release!!
This whole album is sick
Love it. My cousin thinks that at 1:11 he says "I'm fighting a holy war in the mensroom".
Truly mental.
Haha I can’t unhear it
2024 still banging it
this better be played at my funeral
Concurred...ditto!