Hella Caskets (fully lost Greaf Mixtape; 2014)

Who is Greaf?

Bobby Brice better known under his producer alias Greaf an extremely mysterious figure in the early SoundCloud rap scene. Nothing is known about Greaf. Nobody knows what he looks like, His general location and or full name (Though mistakes have been made leading to his possible full name to be leaked). Greaf is a producer who made most of underground rapper BONES' first hits. Rappers like XXXTENTACION and Lil Peep have used his instrumentals in their early careers. Greaf started producing around 2009 but reports say he first started creating music back in 2006. Before being known as Greaf, Greaf was most well known as "Bobby Music" or "Bobby Beats". Greaf started producing for Tommy Hilfiger's rapper son, Ricky Hil and the infamous Lil B and at the time even landed himself a song with a Weeknd feature and even connecting with rapper Yelawolf. In around 2013, Greaf changed his name from Bobby Music to Greaf which from this had a change in style, Greaf's beats were already extremely dark and gloomy but still had some happy charm to them. The change to Greaf mostly included trap drums instead of acoustic and a darker athtic. Later in 2013, The origins are unknown but the upcoming underground rap star BONES had apparently discovered his music. BONES gave Greaf a promising career and future ahead of him. Greaf would join the growing collective created by BONES named "TeamSESH" which at the time contained multiple large underground producers such as Cold Hart and DJ Smokey. Later in 2014, BONES and Greaf decided to form a duo named Surrenderdorothy which had BONES switch from his hardcore rapping style to and Emo-Indie style of acoustic music. Greaf's production is extremly unique as he uses slow BPM's and obscure samples from Bandcamp and YouTube. Greaf is also well known for deleting his works shortly after posting them making his songs rare and hard to locate which in return is the reason this entire article is being created.

What is Hella Caskets?

As I talked about in the previous section, Greaf deletes his works often most likely to keep his work rare and unknown. In May of 2014, Greaf released the only mixtape that month named "Hella Caskets". This tape has pretty much no information about it online and it seems nobody remembers anything about this. It was unknown for the longest time if it ever existed and if it's even a real mixtape. The first refence of the name Hella Caskets was in 2013 on Greaf's Bandcamp, The page for his mixtape named "Forty Eight Hours" contained what seemed to be some sort of made up label which exactly read "Deader Inc. Hella Caskets 2013". Deader was one of the aliases Greaf used as well as a naming scheme he used in his beats. This was also the first mention we have of Hella Caskets. From searching on Twitter I also found out that back in 2013 some Twitter users were using hashtags about Hella Caskets, This may have been how Greaf had thought of the name.

A list of Greaf tapes released in 2014 shared by TeamSESH members.

The Search for Hella Caskets

The first real proof we have of the tape existing was a screenshot of Greaf tapes circulating around 2014-2015 posted by either Greaf himself or another fellow TeamSESH member. Almost all the tapes on this list have been found exepct Hella Caskets. The search went dead for a few years until a promosing lead had been found. In 2014, A collection of "Fan" sites were created in relating to Greaf and his duo with BONES, Surrenderdorothy. These sites include, Greaf Club, Greaf Memorial (Tumblr) and Surrenderdorothy Fans (Tumblr). When I first got told and first discovered these sites I had mixed feelings. My first thought was Who the hell is making fan sites in 2014? I almost thought it was made by a TeamSESH member to promote Greaf and Surrenderdorothy music. The Tumblr's did look real though. The first site which is Greaf Club contained most of the info we can get on this tape. One of the first things I found interesting was about how apparently there was supposed to be a collaboration tape between fellow TeamSESH member, Fifty Grand and Greaf. It was strange as I digged deeper I discovered that there was only one other piece of evidince which was a sole Tweet from a fan. Arden seemed to never come out and it was strange how this was one of the only places to talk about a tape with 0 info online. Theres not much else on the site other then a single GIF. It was on an article on the site promoting a single released back in September of 2014. It had a black and white GIF attached containg lots of released Greaf singles and mixtape cover arts. There was some random images included fitting the theme but there was one that stuck out. It contains multple hands sticking out of a stump. This could very well just be an unrelated image added but it looks very Greaf like, If you've seen his covers, you can tell it just looks different. The image's orgin was traced back to an experimental Tumblr artist, Most of Greaf's cover arts are stolen from Tumblr and edited slightly so this very well could be one of his covers, Hella Caskets or not. Now onto the Surrenderdorothy Fans.

Conclusion

Over 10 years later, It's still unknown if this tape even came out. It could very well be some sort of joke made by TeamSESH member.

References

• Reddit Thread created looking for the tape
• Lost Media Wiki Forums Thread