Gravediggaz

Gravediggaz
Gravediggaz (1998)
General information
Genre (s)	Hip-hop , horrorcore
founding	1992, 2010
resolution	2002, 2016
Last occupation
"Undertaker"	Prince Paul (Paul Huston)
"Rzarector"	RZA (Robert Diggs)
"Gatekeeper"	Frukwan (Arnold Hamilton)
former members
"Grym Reaper"	Too Poetic (Anthony Ian Berkeley) (1992-2001)

Gravediggaz performance 1997

Gravediggaz was an American Horror Core - Super Group , which was active in its underground formation from 1992 1998. The band included Prince Paul and Frukwan from Stetsasonic as well as RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan and Too Poetic.

history

With their debut album “Niggamortis” (renamed “6 Feet Deep” a little later for marketing reasons) Gravediggaz made it into the charts in 1994. The work with the single "Diary Of A Madman" landed in the top 40 of the US pop album charts. In 1997 her most successful album "The Pick, The Sickle And The Shovel" followed.

Frukwan and Too Poetic were not only optically always in the center of Gravediggaz, the two were the most important songwriters of the band. The 2002 album “Nightmare In A Minor” (“Nightmare in A Minor ”) was the product of the duo's collaboration. Too Poetic died of colon cancer shortly after the plant was completed on July 15, 2001. Frukwan released his solo album Life in 2003 .

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

6 Feet Deep / Niggamortis   UK 94 09/24/1994 (2 weeks)   US 36 08/27/1994 (11 weeks) The Pick, The Sickle, And The Shovel   DE 36 09/22/1997 (5 weeks)   UK 24 04/10/1997 (2 weeks)   US 20th 11/01/1997 (6 weeks)

Singles

Diary of a Madman   US 82 07/09/1994 (7 weeks) Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide   UK 78 09/17/1994 (2 weeks) 6 Feet Deep (EP)   UK 64 03/11/1995 (2 weeks) The Hell (EP)   UK 12 08/05/1995 (3 weeks) The Night the Earth Cried   UK 44 01/24/1998 (2 weeks) Unexplained   UK 48 04/25/1998 (2 weeks)

Albums

year	album	Label
1994	Niggamortis / 6 Feet Deep	Gee Street
1997	The Pick, The Sickle, And The Shovel	Gee Street
2002	Nightmare In A-Minor	BMG

Compilations

year	album	Label
2004	6 feet under	X-Ray (SunnyMoon)

Singles & EPs

year	album	Label
1994	1-800-Suicide / Mommy What's A Gravedigga?	Gee Street
1994	Diary Of A Madman	Gee Street
1994	Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide	Gee Street
1995	Double Suicide Pack	Gee Street
1995	6 Feet Deep EP	Gee Street
1995	The Hell EP	4th & Broadway
1997	Dangerous Mindz	Gee Street
1997	The Night The Earth Cried	Gee Street
1998	Unexplained	Gee Street

Web links

• Gravediggaz in the All Music Guide (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gravediggaz rapper Too Poetic Dies Of Cancer on billboard.com, accessed on July 27, 2015 (English)
2. ↑ Sources Chart positions albums: DE ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / US / UK , accessed February 24, 2013. 
3. ↑ Sources for chart placements singles: US / UK , accessed on February 24, 2013.