clothes, and the RZA co-founded the Wu-Tang Clan, which Paul later observed had been influenced by the Gravediggaz' conceptualization as a concept-oriented rap supergroup. Eazy-E offered the Gravediggaz a contract with Ruthless Records, but Paul turned it down due to Jerry Heller's contract, which Paul described as "one of the worst [contracts] I’ve ever seen in my life." Several years after the demo was recorded, Gee Street Records offered a better contract, and subsequently signed the group. "Constant Elevation" was the first song recorded by the group after signing with Gee Street. Poetic rewrote his intro verse after some bad takes, establishing the energy that would carry over to the rest of the album's vocal sessions. RZA intended to record "Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide" as a solo track, but Prince Paul recorded additional verses from Frukwan and Poetic. Composition Gravediggaz was one of the first rap groups in the subgenre horrorcore, which The Quietus writer David Bennun described as "a then novel means of addressing black life at street level [and] finding a new way of getting that message across". Q magazine said that the Gravediggaz "use death, burial and The Grim Reaper as central themes for a chilling mid-tempo stomp through America's urban problems." Bennun connects Gravediggaz' lyrics not only to the hardcore rap lyrics of the Geto Boys and Cypress Hill, but also to EC Comics' Tales From The Crypt. According to John-Michael Bond in his review for Rap Reviews, the album's unifying theme is hate, which Gravediggaz use as "a metaphor for murdering the mindless drivel that infected early '90s rap". Hip hop at this time had shifted towards violent gangsta rap, due to the popularity of N.W.A and Ruthless Records, and the lyrical content of early-90s rap acts was seen as "vying to outdo the last for cold-blooded gruesomeness, justified on the grounds that it was simply portraying life as it is on the street", according to Bennun. In contrast to the serious-toned violent threats of hardcore rap, the Gravediggaz' lyrics combine horror themes with black comedy and satire, exemplified by the album's original title, Niggamortis. According to Bond, "Gravediggaz were born out of a disdain and hatred for the bullshit that surrounded four men whose talents were under represented at the time and set out to make the most uncompromising music possible." Bond compares 6 Feet Deep to social horror films like The