6 Feet Deep

by Gravediggaz

Overview

6 Feet Deep is a sick joke. A lethally great and a ghoulishly comical one, but a deranged and sadistic prank nonetheless. Eschatological, gruesome, paranoid, and obsessed with death (both imposing and experiencing it), the debut from eeeeevil supergroup Gravediggaz lands somewhere in the nexus at which the bizarro universe of legendary producer Prince Paul -- who oversees the whole project while wearing the mask and wielding the shovel of the Undertaker for the occasion -- crashes headlong into RZA's dingy, farcical New York City, a haunted, inverse Oz where graffiti meets science fiction meets splatter flick in an unholy alliance that finds Freddy Krueger fiendishly pursuing the turf gangs out of Walter Hill's The Warriors down 125th and Elm Streets. Throw in a few crazed variations on Medieval torture techniques, a few too many midnight kung-fu screenings, and a few fantasies of bodily damage so giddily, demonically cartoonish that they would make Wile E. Coyote lick his lips with mischievous envy, and you have this brilliantly strange, whimsically jagged horror film in song (critics unofficially dubbed the style horrorcore) with its maimed and gnawed tongue firmly planted in cheek. If you can stomach the buckets of lyrical blood spilled herein, there is no end to the gory highlights, from the running-in-place nightmare of "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide" to the psychotically nauseous angel-dust high of "Defective Trip (Trippin')" to the willfully objectionable "1-800 Suicide" and self-destructive "Bang Your Head," all of them terribly catchy. As a bonus, 6 Feet Deep is sure to offend the sensibilities of all middle-aged family-values crusaders and conservative-type politicians -- vampires of a different sort -- who aren't in on the joke. Overseas, the album was titled Niggamortis. With its combined allusion to mortality and example of wicked wordplay, it would have been even more apropos. Whatever it goes by, though, the album can be resurrected again and again without losing any of its devilishly good potency. ~ Stanton Swihart

Product Details

Release Date:	11/22/2018
Label:	Eone
UPC:	0634164605018
Rank:	23450

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Gravediggaz   Primary Artist
Leroy & The Drivers   Primary Artist
Kurious   Guest Artist,Vocals
Craig G   Guest Artist
Masta Ace   Guest Artist
Vernon Reid   Guest Artist,Vocals
MC Serch   Guest Artist,Vocals
Biz Markie   Guest Artist,Vocals
Don McKenzie   Vocals
Eddie Berkeley   Vocals
Don Newkirk   Keyboards
Djinji Brown   Vocals
Scott Harding   Bass,Vocals,Guitar (Bass)
Prince Paul   Scratching
Wildman Steve   Vocals
Killah Priest   Vocals
Hellrazor   Vocals
Derrick Lovelace   Vocals
Tracey Amier Witherspoon   Vocals
Raquelle Stroud   Vocals
Mr. Sime   Vocals
Scientific Shabazz   Vocals
Skiz   Vocals
James Jackson   Vocals

Technical Credits

Bob Daisley   Composer
Chris Gehringer   Engineer,Mastering
Ethan Ryman   Engineer
Lee Kerslake   Composer
Dennis Mitchell   Assistant Engineer
Scott Harding   Mixing,Engineer
Robert Diggs   Composer
Prince Paul   Score,Mixing,Arranger,Engineer,Producer,Associate Producer
KRS-One   Performer
RNS   Producer
Randy Rhoads   Composer
Ozzy Osbourne   Composer
Waymon Reed   Composer
Arnold Hamilton   Composer
Gravediggaz   Mixing,Composer,Producer
Patrice Rushen   Composer
Booker T. & the MG's   Performer
Carlos Bess   Assistant Engineer
Eugene McDaniels   Composer
The Undertaker   Mixing
Leroy & The Drivers   Performer
Just-Ice   Performer
RZA   Mixing,Producer
Allen Toussaint   Performer
Gatekeeper   Mixing,Producer
W.L. Reed   Composer
A. Moon   Composer
Paul Huston   Composer
D. Collins   Composer
Angela Rushen   Composer
Grym Reaper   Mixing
The Whole Darn Family   Performer
Jamey Staub   Assistant Engineer
Franz Verna   Assistant Engineer
Mr. Sime   Mixing,Producer
T. Thomas   Composer
Pedro Sime   Composer
John Ussery   Performer