Season Of Da Siccness (The Resurrection)
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Album Summary
Brotha Lynch Hung's 'Season of da Siccness (The Resurrection)' came roaring out of Sacramento, California in 1995 on Black Market Records, and beloved, this was not something cooked up in some slick major label studio with suits watching through the glass. This was raw, independent, street-level art — primarily self-produced by the man born Kevin Mann himself — and it carried every ounce of that unfiltered Sacramento energy straight through the speakers. Black Market Records, a regional independent operation, put this out into the world without the machinery of a major behind it, and yet the record moved and breathed and spread like wildfire through the underground. The production leaned dark and heavy, drawing from a Parliament-Funkadelic-influenced sonic palette filtered through the grimy West Coast aesthetic of the mid-1990s, and the result was a horrorcore manifesto that announced Sacramento had its own voice — distinct, menacing, and impossible to ignore.
Reception
- The album achieved remarkable independent commercial success, moving over 300,000 units driven almost entirely by regional word-of-mouth and underground distribution networks — a staggering figure for an independent release operating entirely outside major label infrastructure.
- Critical recognition within hip-hop circles celebrated the album as a landmark of West Coast underground rap, though mainstream outlets largely passed it by due to its unflinching and extraordinarily graphic lyrical content.
- The album cultivated a fierce and devoted cult following across Sacramento and the broader West Coast, with street-level momentum carrying it far beyond what any traditional chart measurement could have captured for an indie release of its time.
Significance
- 'Season of da Siccness (The Resurrection)' stands as a foundational document of West Coast horrorcore, carving out a lane for Sacramento's rap scene that was wholly its own — separate from Los Angeles gangsta rap and Bay Area hyphy — built on viscerally cinematic storytelling and a production atmosphere as dark and heavy as a midnight fog rolling off the Sacramento River.
- The album's independent commercial triumph became a blueprint for regional underground rap ecosystems, proving that an artist operating entirely outside major label structures could build a genuine, lasting audience through grassroots hustle and community loyalty — a lesson West Coast artists carried into the late 1990s and beyond.
- Brotha Lynch Hung's lyrical persona on this record — steeped in cannibalistic imagery, horror-film darkness, and unflinching street mythology — established a stylistic framework that influenced horrorcore artists across the country for years to come, making this album one of the genre's most studied and revered touchstones.
Tracklist
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A1 Cusche Break 63
0:18
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A2 Siccmade 70
3:45
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A3 Dead Man 146
0:52
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A4 Rest In Piss 138
4:41
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A5 Get Da Baby 86
0:35
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A6 Return Of Da Baby 111
4:13
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B1 Locc 2 Da Brain 170
5:27
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B2 Cue Ball 89
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B3 Liquor Sicc 140
5:21
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C1 40 Break 120
1:14
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C2 Gangsta Shit 180
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C3 Deep Down 75
6:50
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C4 Dead Man Walking 72
3:33
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C5 781 Redrum 86
0:47
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D1 Season Of Da Siccness —
3:53
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D2 Welcome 2 Your Own Death 151
5:19
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D3 Real Loccs 92
4:15
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D4 Inhale With Da Devil 142
2:23
Artist Details
Brotha Lynch Hung is a Sacramento, California rapper born Kevin Mann who emerged in the early 1990s with a bone-chilling blend of horrorcore and West Coast gangsta rap that was unlike anything the game had heard before, carving out his own dark lane with graphic, cinematic lyrics that made even the hardest heads take notice. His 1993 independent debut *Season of da Siccness* became a street classic, moving hundreds of thousands of units on its own without major label muscle, proving that the underground had its own powerful heartbeat. He stands as a pioneer of Sacramento hip-hop and a cornerstone figure in horrorcore, influencing a generation of artists who dared to explore the darker corridors of the human experience through rhyme.
