Gravediggaz - The Pick, The Sickle And The Shovel

[voodoodrew]

Released: 1997

Notes:

1.INTRO
produced by The RZA

2.DANGEROUS MINDZ
produced by 4th Disciple. co produced by The RZA

3.DA BOMB
produced by True Master

4.UNEXPLAINED
produced by Poetic

5.TWELVE JEWELZ (RZA SOLO)
produced by Darkim

6.FAIRYTALEZ featuring Kelis
produced by Goldfinghaz

7.NEVER GONNA COME BACK
produced by Goldfinghaz

8.PIT OF SNAKES
produced by True Master. co produced by The RZA

9.THE NIGHT THE EARTH CRIED
produced by 4th Disciple. co produced by The RZA

10.ELIMINATION PROCESS featuring Shabazz The Disciple, Omen & The Aleem Brothers.
produced by Poetic

11.REPENTANCE DAY featuring Killah Priest & Hell Razah
produced by Poetic

12.HIDDEN EMOTIONS
produced by True Master

13.WHAT'S GOIN' ON? featuring 9th Prince & Blue Raspberry
produced by The RZA

14.DEADLIEST BIZ
produced by Frukwan

15.OUTRO
produced by Prince Paul


i didn't like this album as much as the first one. it still had some good tracks. i'll admit though that i hit the skip button more than i should whenever i listen to it. still, some of the RZA's stuff on here is classic!

[ol dirty abbot]

7.5/10 not as gory as the first but still good

[talassi]

10/10 absolute classic, can't think of one skippable song

[mic-cord-strangler]

wu classic.. i prefer this style over the first gravediggaz album.. that horror conscious sound

[TUCO]

i just bought it the other day....was hard to pikc between this and Nightmare in A Minor

[Luz]

I'm still getting used to this album. Despite what you may hear, its not anywhere near 6 Feet Deep. Lots of knowledge being dropped, but its not as banging as most Wu classics. Still a great cd. Da Bomb and Pit of Snakes are awesome songs and the best two on the cd.

[Seyo]

hell yeah i love that album, not an absolute classic, but i real good one...the sounbd is raw and the rhymes all skilled...

[Lesbian Nun]

Amazing album...as good as they come...

i personally like the absence of Rza on Nightmare in A-minor to this album...

1. 6 feet deep
2. Nightmare in A-minor
3. Pick, sickle n' shovel
4. Gravediggaz Demos
5. Tricky vs. Gravediggaz
6. 6 feet under

that's how i see their discography...

[abasi]

the best gravediggaz album

[GENERAL WISE]

I can't decide between this and 6 Feetdeep

This was alot cleaner
i.e Wu-tang Forever

6 FeetDeep
i.e Enter The Wu-Tang 36 Chambers

definite Wu-Fam classic

Unexplained is crazy production by Poetic
one of his best tracks

[Sherz]

Without a doubt one of my favorite albums of all time. Period. Produced by RZA and the Wu-Elements, 'diggaz second album had a different sound than the first. I think that this one sounded more cohesive than the first. Sure, the ridicously dope horrorcore theme was dichted but they replaced with something even more frightening, reality. Psychological lyrics instead of raw horror. Genuis! The painted a picture on this album that was sometimes nervous, even paranoid but so damn real. This is what hiphop artists need to do when they drop another album, take it to another level, goddamned! It's a classic! Yes the c-word some, you herbs. Let me spell it for you C-L-A-S-S-I-C.



Too many gems to choose from, but the ones that stuck the most to me were Dangerous minds, They never come back, The night the eart cried & What's going on. And offcourse, Twelve Jewels the track that had/have some of us still grinding for that "Cure" album. But its Dangerous Minds whom have me picking my copy and blaze it (which I do really, really often)

The production is supberb but its the lyrical content which takes it to there. For those who are too young (it's okay, we all been there) or those just slept on it (you fucks), exhibit A

As nuclear dropped out of the sky, killin birds and to fear
For hydroperoxide and sodium oxide, deep down outta basements
Fish turned lopside and upside down from atomic facelifts
Through the blackness I saw John the Baptist, on the atlas
Holdin the masters to my Psalm under his arm
But long before I even wrote 'em, 23 elders each wrote me a Psalm
And placed them within my motor neurons
It contained the aproximate date of the Apocalypse
Deposited in scripts of the 20th century prophets
The clock ticks, tick, tick, tick
Upon the land borders, I count down the manslaughters
Military camcorders under ocean waters
Red October causin fish to grow arms, legs, tits, and double heads
Mutating the eggs as the radiation spreads over the water beds
I watch Mother Nature as she bled
Grym, was placed in skin casing to being lacing hyms through the basement
Won't be no escapin from the South to the North
Where you run ten paces and your face is fallin off
- Grymreaper - Repentance Day -

Exhibit B? Well, go buy/play this fucking album and stop sleeping on it!!! Haha.. am not kidding!

PZz

[SurreaL]

My fav album from them, G-R-A-V-E D-I Double G - A To the Zig Zag Z

[Sherz]

Wtf? ooh, I didn't know there was topic on this. Am sorry. I shall ask the mods to close mine.
PZz

Here my well documented review;



Without a doubt one of my favorite albums of all time. Period. Produced by RZA and the Wu-Elements, 'diggaz second album had a different sound than the first. I think that this one sounded more cohesive than the first. Sure, the ridicously dope horrorcore theme was dichted but they replaced with something even more frightening, reality. Psychological lyrics instead of raw horror. Genuis! The painted a picture on this album that was sometimes nervous, even paranoid but so damn real. This is what hiphop artists need to do when they drop another album, take it to another level, goddamned! It's a classic! Yes the c-word some, you herbs. Let me spell it for you C-L-A-S-S-I-C.



Too many gems to choose from, but the ones that stuck the most to me were Dangerous minds, They never come back, The night the eart cried & What's going on. And offcourse, Twelve Jewels the track that had/have some of us still grinding for that "Cure" album. But its Dangerous Minds whom have me picking my copy and blaze it (which I do really, really often)

The production is supberb but its the lyrical content which takes it to there. For those who are too young (it's okay, we all been there) or those just slept on it (you fucks), exhibit A

As nuclear dropped out of the sky, killin birds and to fear
For hydroperoxide and sodium oxide, deep down outta basements
Fish turned lopside and upside down from atomic facelifts
Through the blackness I saw John the Baptist, on the atlas
Holdin the masters to my Psalm under his arm
But long before I even wrote 'em, 23 elders each wrote me a Psalm
And placed them within my motor neurons
It contained the aproximate date of the Apocalypse
Deposited in scripts of the 20th century prophets
The clock ticks, tick, tick, tick
Upon the land borders, I count down the manslaughters
Military camcorders under ocean waters
Red October causin fish to grow arms, legs, tits, and double heads
Mutating the eggs as the radiation spreads over the water beds
I watch Mother Nature as she bled
Grym, was placed in skin casing to being lacing hyms through the basement
Won't be no escapin from the South to the North
Where you run ten paces and your face is fallin off
- Grymreaper - Repentance Day -

Exhibit B? Well, go buy/play this fucking album and stop sleeping on it!!! Haha.. am not kidding!

PZz

[Sherz]

I didn't see it on Prof. Engs list. Am sorry. Please close it down for me.

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[SurreaL]

Never gonna come back, Unexplained, da bomb, even the outro is dope. peace.