dude this is fuckin awesome. Lotus is what got me into hip-hop as a whole. Espessially this album. I always felt it was a mix between Shangri-la and Hell's Pit. I mean, its all fuckin dark, but i feel some songs are a bit lighter(but not by much). Anything else of this nature would be appreciated. Oh, and my favorite track on this album is probably Hurt Myself and/or Cigam Kcalb. thanks dawg!

dark lotus is the ultimate psychopathic record. if i was stuck with only one cd out of the catalog, gimme tales from the lotus with Marz. its wicked, theres comedy, all that classic psychopathic style we love.

its so weird that tales from the lotus is considered to be some of their best work ever and violent j doesnt like it, thats crazy. its the ultimate wicked shit album, they dont even talk about killin people that much and its still more wicked than anything they did before cuz the beats are hauting and the songs deal with magic and spirits. its fuckin magical.

they set the bar so high on tales from the lotus, that anything new from dark lotus wasnt gonna top it.

i cant find the realjuggalos interview where monoxide speaks on how he felt about marz after they kicked him out.

found a recent marz interview

Do you ever listen to Dark Lotus' "Tale from the Lotus Pod" CD?

No. Before I hooked up with them, I never listened to the horrorcore. I never do and I never have since. When we were doing the album, to me it was something unique because I had never heard it. When I did my part, I felt like I brought what I needed to bring with that thing and I moved on past it. I don't feel too comfortable rapping or singing or anything about (stuff) that's not real. I'm way more into writing real experience (stuff) about what's happening in my own life or things that I've been through. I ain't never chopped nobody's head off. If someone pushed me, I could. But I can't rap about that. It doesn't feel good to me. The Dark Lotus (album) was mad fun, but I couldn't just keep doing that. I couldn't do more than one album like that or base my career on it. That's just not me.

MARZ: Well, I think one of the main differences is the fact that we did real spells in a lot of the songs, you know what I'm saying. Like real shit, not just talking about it, like it's the actually spells. So it's weird. When you listen to this stuff you can feel that there is something going on. It's hard to explain but when you hear it, it just feels like there is little rumblings happening in the under world.

Lol i never knew why during the bizarr / freekshow era they wanted Vampiro in the group, he doesnt even rap...

Esham would have been a good fit as a member cuz he was still kickin really good music like the "tongues" album....esham was kicked out cuz blaze got his spot, and blaze had some of his best verses on that dark lotus album "ali baba" he is str8 up flowin!! and "call upon your gods" blaze kept that shit gangsta as fuck!

and marz was an essential part of the whole albums "darkness" and black magic feel to it. when u play that cd, it feels like something is evil in the air, u can feel it in your bones. its the wickedest album ever. hands down. i always thought the 6th jokers card would give me that feeling, but shagri la was an uplifting record and was special, but this album is the wicked shit. i still dont listen to "the crows" alone after havin a bad shroom trip to that song on headphones, that wasnt a good idea.

the choruses and hooks on tales from the lotus feel like black magic chants and spells which marz and violent J were crazy enough to use it in music and thats wat was missing on "Black rain" and that disaterous "opaque brotherhood". black rain had some really really good songs, and some really bad ones cuz of the choices of beats and they didnt go for the black magic style, it was just a collaboration album with the label at the time. and opaque brotherhood is fuckin monotone as hell. deep voices, deep basslines and empty music not giving any track personality. the song titles looked good and then i played them and was seriously let down.

anyone know the official album credits / song titles from "tales from the lotus". i remember one was called "mah jeh mah" wtf does that mean?????