Richard Dickie Lee Mason (born June 18, 1987[1]), also known as Crucified or Crucified830, is an underground rapper from New Braunfels, Texas. He's been releasing songs since 2004 but has been rapping for over 20 years, his first song believed to be written when he was 15 was Creepin Slow. Crucified is a Chopper, capable of rapping over 20 syllables per second. Currently he's the fastest rapper in the world. Despite not being a very mainstream rapper, he has worked with mainstream artists such as Bizzy Bone, Lord Infamous and Twisted Insane. Many of Crucified's songs feature topics such as marijuana, murder and the paranormal, particularly aliens.
Notable raps[]
That Music (2012, Sing to the Morning Light, featuring Playa Rob) - Notable for speed, hits 14.38 SPS. Formerly believed to hit 20.87 SPS, and Crucified had originally calculated it as 24 SPS
Pulse verse (2014, from a chopper collab by YungDro Productions) - Notable for speed, hits over 15 SPS. Also has nearly double the amount of views as the original video by YungDro
Wicked (2012, The Birth of Tragedy, featuring Twisted Insane) - Notable for featuring Twisted Insane who also appears in 2 other songs by Crucified (CRUCIFIED and Count My Victims)
Power Up (2017, Water to Wine) - Notable for speed, hits 19.00 SPS. It was formerly believed Crucified had hit 28.91 SPS on this
Killers In Your Mind (2009, Remember The Name, featuring Shy One) - Notable for being the first video uploaded on Crucified's YouTube channel
Still We Breathe (2012, The Birth of Tragedy, featuring Bizzy Bone) - Notable for featuring Bizzy Bone
Undaground Choppers 1 verse (2013, from a chopper collab by DJ Lil Sprite) - Notable for speed, hits 17.54 SPS but it was formerly believed he'd hit 25.34 SPS on this
Visions (2023, The M.I.S.T, featuring Down6) - Has Crucified's fastest burst ever, 22 syllables per second
Accusations of faking his raps[]
Over the years Crucified has had many people who doubt he really raps that fast. Some accuse him of speeding up his verses and others accuse him of not saying words. In 2014 Crucified uploaded a live video in which he raps 799 syllables in 46 seconds, averaging 17.37 syllables per second, with the fastest part being over 19 SPS to prove he didn't speed up his songs, and posted lyrics with his Infinite Choppers verse to show that he doesn't gibber or mumble.
Guinness World Records[]
Friday, September 13, 2013, Crucified entered Guinness World Records in an attempt to break the record as fastest rapper, by rapping 949 syllables in 49 seconds, an average of 19.37 SPS, and had Bizzy Bone vouch for him. 6 months later Guinness revealed they had closed the category due to lack of competition. The current GWR fastest rap MC is Rebel XD with 852 syllables in 42.2 seconds (20.19 SPS. The verse is very slurred however) however the current holder of the record is El Chojin with 921 syllables in 1 minute, despite Outsider having rapped the whole of his song Loner in just 50 seconds in an attempt to beat the record, which was over 16 SPS. It wasn't counted due to being in Korean.
Even though Crucified didn't win the Guinness World Record, his raps were verified as real which hasn't happened for many other choppers.
Top 10 Fastest Verses[]
10. I Hunt And Kill - 19/1.053 = 18.04 SPS
9. Try Me - 19/1.051 = 18.08 SPS
8. Undaground Choppers 8 - 21/1.143 = 18.37 SPS
7. Undaground Choppers 4 - 19/1.000 = 19.00 SPS
6. Infinite Choppers - 19/1.000 = 19.00 SPS
5. The Killer - 21/1.092 = 19.23 SPS
4. Godzilla Meets Ghidorah - 20/1.038 = 19.27 SPS
3. Onion Chopper - 20/1.022 = 19.57 SPS
2. Nightmare - 21/1.042 = 20.15 SPS
1. Visions - 23/1.000 = 23.00 SPS
Trivia[]
The 830 in Crucified's username is his area code (New Braunfels)
Crucified's song Eyes to the Sky (of Sing to the Morning Light) won THIRDPHASEOFMOON's 2013 contest for best song about paranormal activity[2]
Here is a list of cyphers Crucified appears in:
- Save Me/TapOutBass - YouTube Choppers (2011)
- Twisted Insane - Brainsick 1.0 (2012)
- DJ Lil Sprite - Undaground Choppers (2013)
- YungDro & Hood Killa - 28 Days Posse (2013)
- YungDro - Pulse (2014)
- DJ Lil Sprite - Undaground Choppers 3 (2015)
- Statuz - Earth for Myself 2 (2015)
- DJ Lil Sprite - Undaground Choppers 4 (2016)
- DJ Lil Sprite - Undaground Choppers 8 (2018)
- Glock Mane - Jason Mask Posse (2021)
- Ruffian Rugged & Dumanoid - Onion Chopper (2023)
- Salvo ENT - Infinite Choppers (2023)
Crucified was in a rap group known as THC (Texas Hood Click), a play on words with the chemical name for marijuana.
Crucified's daughter appears in a few of his raps, the most notable being in I Chop It from the album Water to Wine.
Crucified was (or claims to be) the first to come up with "SPS"[3].