Friday Jam

The year was 1997 and I was 16 years old. My favorite things in the world were weed, skateboarding, and hip hop (in that order) and I thought this song was so awesome.

It still holds up pretty well, but sadly I have moved on from weed and skateboarding.

Well, that is not entirely true. I still skate from time to time, but not with the care free, sunrise to sunset energy I once put into it. Maybe it was because the weed made me skate better? Maybe if I smoked weed again I could skate really good? Maybe weed makes you better at everything? Maybe weed is the answer to...life?

Bagua x Wu Tang

Any self respecting god would not wear these glorified aqua socks.

The RZA is the Samuel L. Jackson of rap.

He will say "YES" to ANYTHING.

Off the top ideas that RZA would say yes to:

- Wu-Tang Logo parachutes

"Yo where my killa chute at, god?"

- Wu-Tang x Joe Boxers

"Wear Wu-Tang x Joe Boxers so your dick can breathe"

- Wu-Tang Crocs

"Finally Crocs for all the gods AND the earths"

- Official Wu-Tang brand switch blade comb

I'm running out of steam.

Feel free to add any other awesome Wu-Tang product ideas below.

Also f.y.i I've hung with RZA twice and the dude is awesome. He just likes putting that "W" on anything and I don't blame him.

Killarmy

When I was at my most back packingness I thought this album was the shit. Listening to it now brings back good memories, but these dude's were seriously talking non-sense the whole time.

The thing was even though at that time (1997) I thought rappers were a huge deal. I would be geeked to hang out with a rapper when I was still in high school, but even back then I felt like Killarmy were just regular dudes. Not in the sense that they were humble or down to earth, but that they were just regular ass dudes. For all I knew any young black male in fatigues in New York at that time could have been a member of Killarmy.

Seriously man. If I had visited New York in 1997 and a random 20 something black male was wearing fatigues and sitting next to me on the L Train I would have probably leaned over and asked him if he was in Killarmy.

Little weird factoid. Killarmy's third and final album was released on 9/11/01.

Now who's crazy son?

For all the gods, sons, duns, mans, and earfs

Gravediggaz

"The sick lunatic with the devilish poem..."

I think a lot of you have a soft spot for this album. I remember being in 2nd period P.E class putting this tape (yeah m*th fucka I said tape) in my beat up walkman and zoning out before they would call my name and number for calisthenics.

This album epitomizes the glory days of my high school years. During that time I only had a few dollars in my pocket, a skateboard, walkman, and my back pack.

The opus release from the super group of RZA, Frukwan a.k.a The Gatekeeper, Poetic, and Prince Paul was originally titled "Niggamortis" but label execs obviously got spooked and changed it to "6ft Deep" with only the European copies keeping the o.g and in my opinion the superior title.

Poetic suffered from colon caner and finally passed in 2001. The group never really re-united properly and none of the subsequent releases ever captured the vibe of the first album.

Take a trip down memory lane.



Track Listing:

* 1 - Intro
* 2 - Constant Elevation
* 3 - Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide
* 4 - Defective Trip
* 5 - 2 Cups Of Blood
* 6 - Blood Brothers
* 7 - 360 Questions
* 8 - 1-800-Suicide
* 9 - Pass The Shovel (only on the European release)
* 10 - Diary Of A Madman
* 11 - Mommy, What's A Gravedigga?
* 12 - Bang Your Head lyrics
* 13 - Here Comes The Gravediggaz
* 14 - Graveyard Chamber
* 15 - Death Trap
* 16 - 6 Feet Deep
* 17 - Outro

And I quote:

The cause of death is unknown to the cops
Cause when I kill them, I'm not leavin one element to autopse
First I'll assassinate em
And them I'll cremate them
And take all of his fucking ashes and evaporate em
Or creep through the graveyard and hunt down your tombstone
Dig up your skeleton and stomp all your fucking bones
You try to haunt me nigga, I ain't trying to hear it
Buck buck buck, I'll give your ass a holy spirit.


Download:

Gravediggaz "6ft Deep" Full Album