By chance, one rainy afternoon I found the 1994 promo cassette of “6 Feet Deep” (Gee Street Records) by the Gravediggaz in the closet. After popping in the tape, I was blown away. Since I don’t recall being such a big fan of these so-called “horrorcore” rappers the first time around, I was surprised when I played the tape a few times that afternoon. Leaning back and sparking up, I remembered my friend Bill Adler, a former press officer at the old Def Jam Records, playing the record in his office at Island Records. That same day, he introduced me to producers Rza (The Rzarector) and Prince Paul (The Undertaker), along with microphone fiends Frukwan (The Gatekeeper) and Too Poetic (The Grym Reaper).

With the exception of Prince Paul, who produced the first three De La Soul albums, I didn’t know any of the guys. I recall thinking it was funny that the man behind the daisy-age sound, who had invent the hip-hop skit on records, was now hanging out with these with these disturbed dudes. Much like Rza’s work with the Wu-Tang Clan, the brutal beauty of the songs on 6 Feet Deep were built from grimy beats and dusted scratches while the hardcore lyrics detailed bleak topics including death, suicide, urban violence and other dark tales. While someone in the marketing department decided to call the their “horrorcore,” the name was perfect.

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They are alright but there is better dark themed Hip-Hop.

The RZA is the shit! Their first album is good. Never got around to listening to the second as I understand it's quite different from the first. One day.

I had a slight interest in this stuff at the time... This was around the time that Death Metal bands like Cannibal Corpse were gaining prominence, and I was very much into that scene. Talk about extreme-I can't believe they're saying that-lyrics!!! Woa!!

I thought the Horrorcore thing was Hip Hop's answer to what the Extreme Metal bands were doing and I had an infatuation with it..... but deep down, I knew most other black folk wouldn't get into songs about corpses and graves and all that dark imagery.