Episode #22 | 10.16.18
Big Lurch: Hip Hop Cannibal
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In this episode
Big Lurch, didn’t just rap about standard hip-hop culture; he rapped about serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and horror movie villains like Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger and in the process contributed to a sub-genre of hip-hop called, “horrorcore”. He also smoked way too much PCP. So much so that he could not separate his horrorcore lyrics and the horror movies he watched from reality. The result? Unspeakable. Not just murder. Cannibalism.
Sources
Fly Society TV: Big Lurch The True Story 2012 Uncensored
VLADTV.com: Big Lurch Talks Music Career and Getting Life in Prison for Cannibalism and Murder
Los Angeles Times: Man Said Insane in Mutilation Killing
Reuters: Rapper Ate Flesh For ‘Gangsta’ Image
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Music
Score by Jake Brennan.
Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.
Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
This episode featured the song, "Cherokee Up On The Roof" and “Carpenter and the Cannibal” by the Disgraceland Players. Written and produced by Jake Brennan, Adam Taylor and Tony Goddess and recorded at Bang A Gong Studios.
*illustration by Avi Spivak @avispivak
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