Help me find this eerie rap video

May 29, 2009 11:30 PM

In the 90s, I used to watch music videos on The Box. In particular, I remember this one video that was spooky, with a lot of echoes in the music, possibly black and white video, possibly with kids playing in the ghetto street.

Sadly, I don't remember much more of it, though I think I'll know it when I see it. With that in mind, can you please recommend some spooky, eerie rap videos from the 90s? Hopefully, this one will be among them, but I'm definitely interested in others.

I've already googled around a bit, and have looked through all the videos in this list.

posted by qvtqht to media & arts (8 comments total)

Maybe Das EFX "Straight from the Sewer"?
posted by mullacc at 1:14 AM on May 30

You might be looking for something within the subgenre of horrorcore--check out groups like Gravediggaz, Flatlinerz, maybe Esham, etc.
posted by box at 4:44 AM on May 30

More disturbing than spooky, but could it be Dana Dane's "Chester"?
posted by flamk at 8:17 AM on May 30

I suspect this isn't it, but the first thing I thought of was Drop by Pharcyde. Not overtly scary but the movie is spooky as it was filmed backwards and the track has some weird reverse pads in the back. There's also lots of playing in the street going on and it had a ton of airplay in the 90s on all the music channels. (Besides that, it's an amazing song and video generally..)
posted by wackybrit at 10:22 AM on May 30

Come to Daddy?
posted by the latin mouse at 4:27 PM on May 30

As per box, I'm going to say Live Evil or Diary of a Madman.

Probably wasn't Black Trump, but you never know. Is there anything else you remember? It's a pretty vague description (which I have plenty of experience with) and there are a ton of videos that could possibly fit. What was the song about?
posted by cashman at 4:54 PM on May 30

Sorry for the late response... It wasn't horrorcore.
posted by qvtqht at 4:48 PM on May 31

I guess the thing that would be most helpful is a catalog of all of The Box videos over the years, but that's probably hard to come by...
posted by qvtqht at 4:48 PM on May 31