Some of these old blues songs were straight up demonic

[Brer Dog]

Yeah it’s something demonic about the Blues cause I was just watching a YouTube video the other week and learned that it was a thing for Blues artist back in the day to claim they sold their souls to the devil

Yeah i remember @IllmaticDelta talking about this:

https://www.thecoli.com/posts/31550487/

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

they were living that life too

skip james was a bootlegger and pimp during the depression. he just moonlighted one of the eeriest blues singers ever on the side

geeshie wiley killed her husband and went on the run

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

 

[King Kai]

 

[MMS]

Yeah it’s something demonic about the Blues cause I was just watching a YouTube video the other week and learned that it was a thing for Blues artist back in the day to claim they sold their souls to the devil

expression of emotions was associated with demonic possession

the devil only exists to those who believe in him a weak person way of running away from their own self created evils

blues never hit to me for the most part

on-topic lyrics don't surprise me

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Blues music gave Heavy metal, shock rock and gangster/horrorcore rap a style to run with

 

[Brer Dog]

they were living that life too

skip james was a bootlegger and pimp during the depression. he just moonlighted one of the eeriest blues singers ever on the side

geeshie wiley killed her husband and went on the run

Did she cut his throat?!

Blues music gave Heavy metal, shock rock and gangster/horrorcore rap a style to run with

Whats crazy is that if you sped it up, removed the repetition and expanded the vocabulary a bit, a lot of them would be horrorcore. Some of them was straight up rapping

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

Did she cut his throat?!





Whats crazy is that if you sped it up, removed the repetition and expanded the vocabulary a bit, a lot of them would be horrorcore. Some of them was straight up rapping

See My Face from the Other Side
“Their sisters behind bars were singing while they were in Grafton, just as they surely had been when L.V. was incarcerated as a teen and when Geeshie allegedly put a knife in her husband’s neck one year after their recording trip.”

 

[YaThreadFloppedB!]

@YaThreadFloppedB!

nah, you got a solid Thread, BrerBreh

 

[Piff Perkins]

Robert Johnson entire career revolved around the devil showing how to play the guitar, and he's the pioneer of Delta blues.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

I need to hear these over some triple six production.

That throw a chair at a nikka shyt. Repped.

 

[Sauce Dab]

Blues music gave Heavy metal, shock rock and gangster/horrorcore rap a style to run with

Blues music gave every genre a style to run with

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Blues music gave every genre a style to run with

true....musically but in this thread and the genres I mentioned, I'm talking more thematically

 

[BulletProof]

Yeah it’s something demonic about the Blues cause I was just watching a YouTube video the other week and learned that it was a thing for Blues artist back in the day to claim they sold their souls to the devil

Robert Johnson.

 

[Hoodoo Child]

shyt was never a game