Is MF Grimm The Most Depressing Rapper?

[bogey_j]

been listening to downfall of ibylis lately..it is truly a document of neuroses if i've ever heard one..it had this dark offkey element to it, like he didn't care if he was rhyming off beat, like it didn't matter, the same old rules didn't apply anymore. he was just going to get whatever he had to say of his chest in all its dissonance because he was getting life [in prison] so fukk everything. the end result was cathartic.

check out the story behind this incredibly underrated record

Grimm was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2000 for narcotics and conspiracy offences. Paying a one-day bail of $100,000, he recorded The Downfall of Ibliys: A Ghetto Opera in those twenty-four hours. Grimm also said in an interview that the album is mainly a lot of questions he had about his life and that his other albums are answers to life.[2] Studying law while incarcerated, Grimm appealed his sentences and filed counter-suits, with the ultimate effect that his sentence was commuted to three years and he was released in 2003.

(about this song: who the hell writes a love song about mary magdalene from the perspective of jesus that should tell you what an unstable, fukked up state of mind he was in)



this one isn't from ibylis, but its one of my favorites from grimm

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL1kuoRcPDY]MF Grimm - Scars & Memories [ HD ] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[labelplant]

Time and Space is my shyt, lowkey

 

[THE 101]

Scars & Memories is one of the saddest, most emotional songs in hip hop history.

 

[inthebushes]

subs

 

[Tony_Siegel]

his graphic novel was beast! def. made me recognize and realize his impact to the game...

 

[wizworld]

Indeed. Dude is talented but I can't listen to him for long at all.

 

[SkinsWizNatsCaps]

nah i give that title to Z-RO

 

[TrifeGod]

he is n a damn wheelchair

 

[RenAi!]

^^^LOLOL what an incredible a$$hole of a post.

 

[Majestyx]

scars and memories is so piff. his verse on 'i hear voices' is depression

 

[bogey_j]

he is n a damn wheelchair

 

[El Dinero]

Thanks for this, prior to this topic I had only heard hiim on G raps album

 

[mortuus est]

his verse on 'i hear voices' is depression

never noticed this

 

[feelosofer]

I think American Hunger is even more depressing. But a classic in and of itself.

MF Grimm is an incredible lyricist though and I think has one of the most potent pen games in all of hip-hop.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

grimm got some songs that hit me that few rappers have got