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Topic subjectCan you think of a weirder super-group than the Gravediggaz?
Topic URLhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2682270
2682270, Can you think of a weirder super-group than the Gravediggaz?
Posted by T Reynolds, Thu Apr-05-12 03:35 PM
2 producers + 2 washed up rappers

horrorcore isn't crazy in and of itself but combined with the weird make-up of the group it's even more unique in Hip-Hop history

this is something that had to come about organically i'm sure there wasn't any label involvement

because how could a label think this idea could be an earner?

2682274, saafir, ahmad, and xzibit?
Posted by Bblock, Thu Apr-05-12 03:55 PM
or ras kas, kurupt, killah priest, and pharoah monche
2682275, Golden State Warriors made sense. RE: saafir, ahmad, and xzibit?
Posted by T Reynolds, Thu Apr-05-12 03:58 PM
Hold on I'm getting confused was it saafir, ras, and xzibit though?

They did that song "Plastic Surgery" off X's debut album

And all this hype about when they were gonna drop but it never happened

>or ras kas, kurupt, killah priest, and pharoah monche

^^ four horsemen?

yeah that was a little weirder

kurupt was never as good as people gave him credit for, lyrically

where they fuck did killah priest come from?

I can't remember none of his rhymes
2682285, it was canibus not pharoah monche. my bad
Posted by Bblock, Thu Apr-05-12 04:25 PM
2682954, Golden State Warriors made sense. RE: saafir, ahmad, and xzibit?
Posted by Original Juice, Sat Apr-07-12 02:58 AM
You are right.. It was Ras Kass in the Warriors; however Ahmad did rock with the other 2 on a track from the live action Streetfighter OST.
2682276, it definitely wasn't label concocted....
Posted by apex, Thu Apr-05-12 04:02 PM
http://jaekicho.com/prince-paul-tells-all-the-stories-behind-his-classic-records-part-2/

Paul kinda lays it out in that interview.... my only two cents here is that there was definitely a subliminal shot being thrown at Tommy Boy. Paul kinda dances around it in the interview. Of course I could be wrong. But I remember RZA saying something about how they were all ex-Tommy Boy artists that got screwed over by the label somehow. And that Gravegiggaz represents a rebuttal to those situations. Definitely weird though....you're right about that.

2682279, that's some heady shit
Posted by T Reynolds, Thu Apr-05-12 04:06 PM
i'll definitely check that article when i get home

2682283, lol so I take it you aren't up on the 2012 Gravediggaz lineup?
Posted by micMajestic, Thu Apr-05-12 04:15 PM
>2 producers + 2 washed up rappers
>
>horrorcore isn't crazy in and of itself but combined with the
>weird make-up of the group it's even more unique in Hip-Hop
>history
>
>this is something that had to come about organically i'm sure
>there wasn't any label involvement
>
>because how could a label think this idea could be an earner?
>

If you thought the 1st lineup was wacky and ridiculous, check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj2jDvogTl8


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2682286, oh noz!
Posted by Bblock, Thu Apr-05-12 04:27 PM

   
2682293, you know what's funny is I'm like the biggest Agallah fan there is
Posted by T Reynolds, Thu Apr-05-12 04:39 PM
2682313, Yeah. There's only a few of us on here that rock with the Don Bishop
Posted by micMajestic, Thu Apr-05-12 05:04 PM
Maybe you, me, Mash (I think) and that's it. He can rap, he can produce and he's creative but he seems to have a hard time packaging it all together properly.
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2682316, That's how I feel. Some of the shit he dropped on the low I really
Posted by T Reynolds, Thu Apr-05-12 05:15 PM
fucks with

The System http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDHEH5GREl0
We Don't Die
Trees for X-Mas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VT9OpNtQdU&feature=fvwrel
Another Dollar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJNR1sax-I&feature=related
Stand Clear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UPQHWxIY8U


he got that old school new york aesthetic
2682288, RE: Can you think of a weirder super-group than the Gravediggaz?
Posted by ACIDSE7EN, Thu Apr-05-12 04:35 PM
Dunno If this counts but Maus Maus: Mos Def, Canibus, MC Serch, Charli Baltimore, Mums, Gano Grills and DJ Scratch
2682298, yo wtf lol
Posted by T Reynolds, Thu Apr-05-12 04:42 PM
2682309, They came together for one song on the bamboozled sound track
Posted by Adwhizz, Thu Apr-05-12 04:56 PM
Blak Is Blak.
2682314, Boo!
Posted by ABROCK33, Thu Apr-05-12 05:09 PM
weird?

how about Genuis

Boo
2682950, RE: Can you think of a weirder super-group than the Gravediggaz?
Posted by melanon, Sat Apr-07-12 02:28 AM
oh they were so fantastic for that one glorious album. truly a genuine hip hop moment.


they were ALL hip hop has beens/outcasts aside from Rza catching fire that year.


grand album. i miss this type of shit.