Closed Casket

by Esham

Closed Casket cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 November 1994
  • Label: Reel Life
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:06:37
  • Community rating: 3.51/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Widely regarded as a defining release in the Detroit horrorcore canon, this album relies on dark, morbid storytelling and intense lyrical violence. Esham heavily utilizes ominous sampling and aggressive boom-bap beats to construct his self-described 'acid rap' sound.

Genres

Descriptors: Gangsta, death, crime, violence, sampling, vulgar, rap, hard, menacing, underground, experimental

Tracklist

  1. The Eulogy (1:11)
  2. The Wicketshit Will Never Die (3:29)
  3. My Homie Got Shot (2:04)
  4. Mental Stress (4:31)
  5. Can't Take It Wit Cha (3:58)
  6. Brainwashed (2:46)
  7. Drive U2 Suicide (2:15)
  8. Chatty Ass Nigga (2:49)
  9. Slug Froma 45 (2:48)
  10. Was It Sum'n I Said (0:49)
  11. Flatline (3:03)
  12. I Don't Owe U Shit (3:45)
  13. Therapy (3:28)
  14. Make Me Wanna Holla (5:10)
  15. Would You Die for Me? (3:01)
  16. 2 Dollahoe (1:53)
  17. 24/7 (4:46)
  18. Diggin on da D-L (3:29)
  19. Premature Ejaculation (4:42)
  20. I'll Be Glad When You Dead (2:51)
  21. Closed Casket (3:41)

Credits

  • Dead Boy - featuring

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