6 Feet Deep
Gravediggaz
1994
6 Feet Deep cleverly mixes horror movie imagery and layers of dark humor with explorations on the psychological impact of slavery, social commentary, and autobiographical tales of growing up in the streets.
Gravediggaz was one of the first rap groups in the subgenre horrorcore, which The Quietus writer David Bennun described as “a then novel means of addressing black life at street level [and] finding a new way of getting that message across”.
Q magazine said that the Gravediggaz “use death, burial and The Grim Reaper as central themes for a chilling mid-tempo stomp through America’s urban problems.”
According to John-Michael Bond in his review for Rap Reviews, the album’s unifying theme is hate, which Gravediggaz use as “a metaphor for murdering the mindless drivel that infected early ’90s rap”.
Stand-Out Tracks
Diary of a Madman
1-800 Suicide
6 Feet Deep
2 Cups of Blood
