Horrorcore



"''I'm gonna slice and dice cause murder's my vice. I'll stab you once, twice maybe even thrice. Carve initials in your liver. Make you quiver, deliver. Yeah, that'd be nice. I'll dissect your heart. Rip your entrails apart. Hack off your head. And that's just the start."

- L.I.F.E. Long

Horrorcore rap music is essentially Gangsta Rap meets Horror Tropes, with a touch of bloodthirsty metal for good measure. There's dispute over where the genre originated, but it's agreed that the Geto Boys, Ganksta N-I-P, Brotha Lynch Hung and Insane Poetry were the forebears of the genre. Horrorcore is more or less gangsta rap turned up to 11. Expect subject matter to cover cannibalism, rape, torture, infanticide, occultism, necrophilia and other horrible things For the Evulz.

See also Death Metal, Gangsta Rap.

Artists in the genre include

 * Anybody Killa
 * BobENite: Evil Sounds Deep Averted to the extreme.
 * Brotha Lynch Hung
 * Bone Thugs-n-Harmony: Early works from the rap group.
 * Bloodshot
 * Blaze Ya Dead Homie
 * Boondox
 * Cage
 * Cannibal Carib
 * Con Crete
 * D12
 * Dark Half
 * DMX on his first two albums, before shifting away from the style on his third album.
 * Eminem
 * Esham
 * Flatlinerz
 * Geto Boys: Pioneered this style.
 * Gravediggaz, featured as the page image.
 * Ganksta N-I-P: Believed to have created it.
 * Hopsin
 * Insane Clown Posse
 * Insane Poetry
 * Jedi Mind Tricks
 * Komatose
 * King Gordy
 * Kid Crusher
 * Lo Key
 * MC Bushpig
 * Natas
 * Necro
 * NWA protege The D.O.C.'s Helter Skelter album.
 * OFWGKTA sometimes shows hints of this, although they deny this constantly.
 * Razakel
 * Razor Ruckus
 * Reverend Fang Gory
 * Scum
 * Stitchmouth: Deep South Horrorcore.
 * Smallz One
 * Sicktanick
 * Syko Sam, who released an EP called "I Kill People For Real"... and allegedly did just that!
 * Three 6 Mafia's underground work when they were called Triple 6 Mafia.
 * Tech N9ne
 * Twiztid
 * X-raided, whose lyrics were used to convict him of first-degree murder.

Record labels centered around this genre

 * Psychopathic Records
 * Lyrikal Snuff Productions
 * Serial Killin Records

Horrorcore often provides examples of the following tropes

 * Ax Crazy
 * Chainsaws
 * Chaotic Evil
 * Creepy Awesome
 * Cold-Blooded Torture
 * Complete Monster
 * Determinator
 * Dead Baby Comedy
 * Evil Is Cool
 * For the Evulz
 * Gorn
 * Heroic Comedic Sociopath
 * I'm a Humanitarian
 * I Love the Dead
 * Knife Nut
 * Stupid Evil
 * Nightmare Fetishist
 * Nightmare Fuel
 * Rule of Scary
 * Refuge in Audacity
 * Slashers
 * Satan
 * The Unfettered
 * Villain Protagonist