The Flatlinerz – U.S.A. (1994)

Posted by HHB Admin on December 16, 2007 – 2:19 pm

01. Intro
02. Good Day To Die
03. Scary Us
04. Flatline
05. Sonic Boom
06. Brooklyn/Queens (Skit)
07. 718
08. Run
09. Body N’ A Blunt
10. Whydyadoit (Skit)
11. Takin’ Em Underground
12. Graveyard Nightmare
13. One Armed Bandit (Skit)
14. Rivaz Of Red
15. Satanic Verses
16. War Zone
17. Beware…(Satanic Verses-Skit)
18. Live Evil

The Flatlinerz, the group responsible for creating perhaps the most extreme genre of music ever to surface called “Horrorcore”. The Flatlinerz made a brief but lasting impression in 1994 when singles from their Def Jam released album “U.S.A.” (Under Satan’s Authority) hit radio and airwaves. Their leading single “Live Evil”, sounded so striking that it would seem that the listeners may have had their dials tuned to a radio station being broadcast from an alternate reality. The video for “Live Evil” was even more unearthing which featured a particular scene of Redrum (the leader of the Flatlinerz) wearing army gear and dreads while supposedly dead hanging from a noose on a tree in a dark environment. In this scene, he comes back to life while still being hung from the noose and aggressively performs his verse which began with him reciting “Redrum is the most cold blooded son of a bitch, I’m six six six I’m sick so sick…”. As you can see the Flatlinerz were very extreme with their type of hip hop. So extreme in fact that they created so much controversy that it was too much and caused the project to come to a halt. Even though it was evident that this group and their material was in early stages of development, any body with a modest amount of insight could easily see the potential for this new angle of hip hop. But unfortunately, (like in the case with most new things; inventions, philosophies, etc) it was shunned and made a mockery of. Since then, it has only been moderately touched upon by artist such as DMX and Bonecrusher (to name a few) but never fully brought back in its entirety. As for the Flatlinerz, they disappeared and never re-surfaced again………until now!!!.

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