Gravediggaz is an American hip hop group from New York City, known for its dark sense of humor and abrasive, menacing soundscapes. The group was formed in 1992, bringing together Prince Paul (The Undertaker), Frukwan (The Gatekeeper), Poetic (The Grym Reaper) and RZA (The RZArector). It came about largely due to the efforts of Prince Paul. The group pioneered the small hip-hop subgenre of horrorcore.
Biography
The group's first album was originally to be titled Niggamortis; however, this potentially risqué title was changed to 6 Feet Deep for the American market (European versions of the album retained the original title, and also included the bonus track "Pass the Shovel"); it was released on August 9, 1994. The four members adopted Gravedigga alter egos for their work with the group: RZA became The RZArector, Poetic became The Grym Reaper, Prince Paul became The Undertaker and Frukwan became The Gatekeeper. In 1995, the three rapping members (without Prince Paul) released a collaborative EP titled "The Hell EP" with UK trip hop artist Tricky.
Percy Carey (born 11 June 1970), also known by the stage names MF Grimm, Grimm Reaper, GM Grimm and originally Build and Destroy, is an American underground rapper, music producer, CEO, and Eisner Award-nominated comic book writer from New York City. He is a founding member of the Godzilla-inspired Hip-Hop collective Monsta Island Czars and early-90s Hip-Hop group Gravediggers with Roc Raida. MF Grimm is also the founder and CEO of the Day By Day Entertainment label, releasing both his own and other albums to general critical acclaim and high regard. During the early-mid 2000s, Day By Day Entertainment was one of the most prolific underground Hip-Hop labels in the United States. Since the early 2000s, MF Grimm has maintained success releasing albums as a solo artist and with DJ/producer Drasar Monumental in the 2010s. Grimm has released five solo albums, five collaborative albums and two compilation albums.
Early life
Percy Carey grew up in the Upper West Side section of Manhattan. His neighbor, Morgan Freeman, helped arrange for him to be cast as a child actor on Sesame Street, he first appeared in Season 7, Episode 0806. He appeared on the show from Age 5 to around Age 9. "One episode, I lost my tooth, and me and Big Bird had to go through Sesame Street and try to find it," Carey remembers. The idea for that episode came about after Carey told Jim Henson about a dream he'd had the night before.
Podcasts:
Gravediggaz
ALBUMS
- 6 Feet Under released: 2004
- Nightmare in A-Minor released: 2002
- The Pick, The Sickle & The Shovel released: 1997
- 6 Feet Deep released: 1994
Nightmare in A-Minor
Released 2002- Mike Check Intro: Prince Paul (skit)
- Bloodshed
- False Things Must Perish
- Last Man Standing (skit)
- Killing Fieldz
- Burn Baby Burn
- Wanna Break
- God vs. Devil
- Zig Zag Chamber
- Todays Mathematics (skit)
- Running Game on Real
- East Coast vs. West Coast (skit)
- Rest in da East
- Guard Ya Shrine
- Nightmare in A-Minor
- End of da World
- Man Only Fears
- Universal Shout Outs (skit)
- Da Crazies (skit)
6 Feet Deep
Released 1994- Just When You Thought It Was Over (intro)
- Constant Elevation
- Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide
- Defective Trip (Trippin')
- 2 Cups of Blood
- Blood Brothers
- 360 Questions
- 1-800 Suicide
- Diary of a Madman
- Mommy, What's a Gravedigga?
- Bang Your Head
- Here Comes the Gravediggaz
- Graveyard Chamber
- Death Trap
- 6 Feet Deep
- Rest in Peace (outro)
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by Gravediggaz
Constant Elevation
by: GravediggazBeware, four figures appear through the fog
Yeah, Gravediggaz cut like swords
Fear makes ya brain go numb
You ain't got a clue where the Gods come from
I sold myself to exist an' then I flittle
With millions of sperm cells an' I found the egg
Know, I got my chance
I came to enhance, represent an' get open as a bank
Pass it, a deep theourassic
Gravediggaz are massive, puttin' niggaz in caskets
Blowin' like the wind, when I'm in my spin
Ya got fucked cross the path of the twister
You face the storm an' bring it on
An' get chopped in the blocks from Hitchcock
The birds, my mental ward is my brainstorm
Somehow I flipped an' came equipped with a chainsaw
Diggin' graves see, pays my rent for the day
Some hate the image that I must portray
Critics, say, "Go to hell", I go, "Yeah
Stupid motherfucker, I'm already there"
Frustrated, mentally aggravated
To be the rebel that society created
I'm good most times but when I'm foul then I'm flagrant
Livin' in the shadows like a government agent
One side of the story
Shit cooked up from Gravediggaz laboratory
Transformin' brains with remains of a slug
With the Undertaker makin' beats that's bugged
Path, we creatin'
Splittin' G's, choppin' necks with the fat guillotines
I'm your nightmare, fright with verse
One verse will put your ass in my black hearse
Ryzarector, danger, enter the graveyard chamber
It's like someone diggin' in yer ear with a hanger
I inject my poison stinger into your finger
Of all your life forces, I'll take ya
I'm bloodthirsty, thirsty for sure
About to bust up the same ones who bust up the poor
You're not safe anymore
To all the holy spooks, I declare war
I'll, grave dig them up from Hell, resurrect them
From the poisonous bones of swine, I disinfect them
Positive energy activates constant elevation
Positive energy activates constant elevation
Out of the darkness
Out of the deep of the darkness
Lies the Gravediggaz
From the parts unknown
The world that's unknown
People fear what they don't understand
So, this is why we're here
To explain that there's nothin' to be afraid of