Song Saturday: Gravediggaz & N.G.N. From Tales From The Hood

How's it going lurkers? I updated my previously published blog on Thursday night about the pioneers of Horrorcore Rap that was published last year.

In addition to the preceding blog, today's Song Saturday consists of Horrorcore rappers that were featured on the Tales From The Hood Soundtrack. 

It has been 20 years, since the time of the movie's release. Tales From The Hood is the equivalent of Tales From The Crypt except it's about lowlife criminals in the ghetto.

The Tales From The Crypt movie is in homage to the Tales From The Crypt Horror anthologies from the 1940's and 1950's.  

Meanwhile, Tales From The Hood is about 3 drug dealers from South Central LA, who are called to collect a stash of drugs from a funeral parlor.

The creepy funeral director, Mr. Simms greets the 3 thugs and shares 4 "moralistic tales of terror" about recently killed people in his parlor. 

Every moralistic tale the funeral director shares with them, the more terrifying the tales become.

Tales From The Hood really wasn't a Horror movie. It's more of a Horror Comedy about drug dealers from the ghetto. Personally, I didn't have a problem with the movie and appreciated it for its ghetto twist on Horror.

When people really think about it, real life incidents are always MUCH MORE appalling than what is shown in a Horror movie.

I believe that watching the Slasher Horror sub-genre is scarier than the cliche vampires, zombies, werewolves, etc. because serial killers actually DO exist. 

Turn on local, national, and/or world news and you will hear about a sociopath or a serial killer being on the loose and in a town near you.

Aside from the movie Tales From The Hood, I have 2 songs from its soundtrack. Both songs are by Horrorcore rappers. It's only fitting to have Horrorcore Rap on a Horror Comedy soundtrack about ghetto drug dealers. Don't you think?

If you ever have the opportunity and feel like watching something a little different, you should watch Tales From The Hood. So with that being said, here's another song by Gravediggaz and a song by N.G.N. featuring Killa for today's Song Saturday.

1) Gravediggaz "From The Dark Side" Tales From The Hood Soundtrack (1995)

2) N.G.N. [Featuring Killa] "The Grave" Tales From The Hood Soundtrack (1995)