7:59 pm
April 29, 2016
Alright, I have to tell a little story here to explain this, but hopefully someone out there can help me figure out info on this tape so I can one day find it and add it to my collection.
I’m pretty sure this was in 1994. I was like 7 at the time. The first ”horror” tape I ever heard was Bone Enterprise – Faces of Death not too long before this so I was bugging out on finding more shit like that. I was either in a thrift store or a flea market with my mom and I slipped away to rummage through cassettes. I found a tape that had a blueish cover with an upside down cross on it. Pretty sure the back of the j card was white with black writing. If memory serves, the tape was a clear shell with blue foil. I remember ”helter skelter” or ”helta skelta” being on the front cover. Not sure if that was the artist or album name.
I remember thinking it was probably something like Faces of Death so I made my mom cop it for me. The only thing I remember of the music is the hook to one of the tracks. Right before the hook the dude says ”now look at the trail of bodies I left mangled. As you can tell, I’m no fucking angel.” and the chorus was a low, monotone chant of ”I’m no mother fucking Angel.” I’m pretty sure this was a single or an EP because I think it only had a few tracks on it. The reason my memory is so vague is because later that night my over-bearing, christian step-father heard me bumping it and came in and looked it over and flipped his shit because of the upside down cross. His punk ass smashed it and threw it away with out even talking to my mom about it so above are all of the details I remember from my brief ownership of said tape.
The next year I discovered ICP and in turn all the Detroit wicked shit and have since been searching for this tape to no avail.
Over the years I’ve deduced that it was NOT:
The DOC – Helter Skelter – The cover was really similar to this although more blue and the cross being upside down.
Esham – Helterskkkelter – I thought for sure this was it when I first saw it but after I listened to it I realized it wasn’t it.
Natas – Doubelieveingod – Cover is very similar to what I remember but it’s not the tape I had.
I’ve searched high and low. Typed the lyrics in internet searches. Searched discogs.com and ebay for years. Never been able to find that shit again and it KILLS me (I’m crazy OCD about my tape collection).
My guess is that it was just some extremely tiny underground artist that put out a super limited number of tapes that were lost in translation before the digital age and I was just lucky enough to find the one that I did and unlucky enough to have an inquisition minded step-father who decided to travel to my room village and cast the devil out of my tape collection on some 1542 shit.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
1:05 am
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11:18 am
January 28, 2016
Did u search the music of gravediggaz. Like u said it could have been a singles tape so dont get caught up on the album covers. Its possible it was bootlegged to so the cover could really throw u off. Or try the flatlinerz.
I also suggest goin thru wikipedia horrorcore page again and completely search the artists and associated artists. It could lead u to ur answer wit a lil sleuthing and time.
Also try tha snipaz, and boot camp click and acts associated wit those groups.
Alot of crazy rap also came from memphis so try searchin artists from there like evil pimp and indo g etc.
12:06 pm
January 28, 2016
Also try lords of the underground or geto boys. Here is a list u can use to get goin in the right direction too.
5:44 pm
April 29, 2016
Thanks for the input guys.
I’m pretty familiar with the artists you’ve suggested and I’m sure it’s none of them. I found Esham through ICP in late 95 and it was Esham’s early shit that reminded me of the tape. The beats sounded very similar, all though the dudes voice was way different. Believe me when I say I’ve exhausted every avenue that I can think of for finding this shit. In the 90s whenever I hit record stores I was always keeping an eye out for it. Even lurked around Detroit record stores for used tapes mad times. Searched associated artists it sounded similar to over and over on every corner of the internet I could find. I was even making posts like this one back in the early 00s on the horrorcore.com forums. I’m in Columbus, Oh and the best thing that I can figure is that this was either some unknown artist from Detroit or surrounding midwest (maybe even local) area who was influenced by Esham but never made it big enough for people to really know his shit and probably left the game after dropping a couple tapes. I wonder how this dude would feel if he found out that for 20 some years someone was searching for his music. haha
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