The Plainfield Ghoul was a murderer, unlicensed gravedigger, and a professional at interior design!
 

But did you know he was also a rapper?

 

That's right, Ed Gein shoveled his way into Justin the Rapper's newest rap battle between Jack the Ripper and The Zodiac Killer. 

 

I had the privelege of portraying such a derranged man.

 

Its always fun to channel a character like that because I have an opprtunity to manipulate my mouth and eyebrows, as well as use my creepy voice.

 

Although he is the third to appear in the rap battle, he is the first to actually have a face associated to the name. 

 

Jack and Zodiac's identities are skeptically identified with several possibilities. 

There is only one Ed Gein, so he makes sure he you know that with the first line.

 

"It's Ed Gein, eviscerating those without a name".

 

Did I mention he was a grave digger?

He did very horrible things with people's bodies, and he tells Jack and Zodiac he will do the same to them.

 

Even though corpses are incapable of emotion, Gein says "the dead scream when they see [him] creeping towards their graves". This adds a whole new level of fright that Gein brings to the table: Ed Gein makes the dead scream. Ryhme scheme

 

 

Gein is disturbed by the nerve they had to call themselves murderers, as they hid in the shadows behind fake identities. Ed Gein was only ever Ed Gein, and he is the only murderer thus far who's personal life is widely expanded on.

 

Most notably, Gein was known for turning body parts into furniture and household decor. He tells his opponents to "take a seat", or stop rapping, before he turns THEM into his furniture. Maybe the chair he wants them to take a seat on will be made of their body parts... (that's the wordplay)

 

"Jack and Zodiac, soon to be reduced to table scraps" is the only line I kept from the original lyrics. We'll touch on that later.

 

Gein tells these two hooligans that their epitaph, or gravestone slogan, will honor them as "nobodies snatched". This is a straight up slap to the face of their honor. To be honored as a nobody is to not be honored at all - and Jack and Zodiac are virtually nobodies - there is no body to associate with their name. Ed Gein was notably a body-snatcher, removing corpses from their graves for his own pleasure. If Gein is body snatching Jack and Zodiac, he is really snatching nobodies, or "nobody snatching".

 

What's wrong with Home Depot or Ashley Furniture, Gein?

 

Gein plays with some more rhyme scheme by saying "Exhume your tomb, remove your womb for cowardice so sinful"

 

SINFUL. NOT SIMPLE!

 

This line and the next are more targeted towards the Zodiac Killer, as he hides behind the paper bag. He thinks this is cowardly of someone who is so-called brave enough to take someone's life.

 

"You couldn't top my cypher with a million little symbols"

 

This battle can be considered a rap cypher between serial killers. A cypher is when a bunch of people just start rapping one after another, or when indivudal rappers are challenged to write and rap over the same instrumental and challenge eachother. The term "cypher" is a homonym of "cipher", which was Zodiac's method of leaving evidence behind. He would leave crypted symbols in letters for his chasers to decipher. Gein says that, even if Zodiac's CIPHER had a million little symbols, it won't be better than Gein's part in the CYPHER.

 

"I'm the core of horror stories, lord of scoring dormant corpses"

 

With some more threatening rhyme schemes, Gein explains how he is the epitome of a horror story antagonist. The stories told by the campfire are similar to his real-life actions, such as going to graveyards and scoring dormant corpses.

 

But, he is "more importantly the lore behind each motion picture's fortune".

 

Ed Gein is notably the inspiration for "Norman Bates of the film and novel Psycho and itssequels, Leatherface of the The Texas Chain Saw Massacre films, Buffalo Bill of the novel The Silence of the Lambs, Ezra Cobb of the film Deranged, Bloody Face from the second season of the TV series American Horror Story, and Eddie Gluskin of the video game Outlast." - Wikipedia

 

 

Although he may not be the most popular serial killer, his ambitions inspired some of the most popular fictional serial killers of today. 

 

"The moon's the only lover to this cold hearted hunter"

 

Gein says how despicable his acts are (a good thing in this sense) to the point where his only lover is the moon. The moon, the source of light at nighttime, is forced to be friends with Ed Gein, as it provides what little light he needs to go gravedigging at night. The moon helpless, yet an accessory to Gein's crimes. Gein's opponents are also helpless in this way, except they will be more victims than accessories.

 

"And I chose you to suffer 'cause you look like my mother"
 

Straight form wikipedia, it says:

 

he dug up the graves of recently buried middle-aged women he thought resembled his mother[35] and took the bodies home, where he tanned their skins to make his paraphernalia.

 

Soon after his mother's death, Gein began to create a "woman suit" so that "...he could become his mother—to literally crawl into her skin".[1

 

 

But Gein confessed, that's what sets him apart from his 2 competitors. He makes sure they know their dishonorabilty as murderers by comparing them to his own honor.

This is weird. I can't believe I portrayed this man...