The group's relationship with Tommy Boy Records eventually panned out for various reasons, scrapping the album and making Poetic very displeased, an early casualty of the politics of the music business.
While Poetic was just beginning his formal hip-hop career in 1987–89, Brainstorm was attending college at the State University of New York at Farmingdale, Long Island, where he was the roommate of Brooklyn's own Super DJ Richie Rich (who had been in 3rd Bass, Clark Kent's Supermen, and the movie Juice).
The college-based MC-DJ party collective called The Group Home Posse was loosely formed with Brainstorm and DJ Richie Rich to include his childhood friend The DJ-Rapper J.A.T.
The university was host to many hip-hop artists as visitors for parties and to do shows like Rakim, EPMD, Producer-Super DJ Clark Kent, and Biz Markie.
After Brainstorm finished his college run in 1989, he took time to learn many aspects of the music business and attempted to record a solo demo with Marcy Projects' Rapper-Producer The JAZ (Big Jaz, mentor of Jay-Z), and was found in many rap circles with Long Island's KMD and other "conscious" MCs of the time, but in 1989 he and Poetic mutually decided to pair up with a hardcore lyrical edge, original wordplay, and acute metaphors, after many collaborations between them since 1985.
After blazing underground radio and live shows around New York City with their lyrics and knowledge of self-based content, they were listed in The Source magazine as the best unsigned rap group of 1989.
These cassette tape "dubs" floated around the New York streets in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and their demo eventually made their way to the seasoned musical ear of fellow Amityvillain Prince Paul (Stetsasonic, De La Soul, Gravediggaz) from his association with the local Long Island artists who had met the brothers and saw their raw talent.
Then the unfortunate happened – being disenfranchised by the politics and games of the music business and life in general, Brainstorm just quit altogether for "personal enlightenment", before any formal deal could solidify.
Poetic understood about Brainstorm's personal path at that stage in his life, but was silently devastated because they were so close to sealing a major record deal that would have propelled them further into Hip Hop history.
Their first single, which made them an instant fixture on the rap scene, was said to be a parody of the group's trial for the murder of "Tommy's Boy", a broader symbolism for all the record labels who rejected them, or counted their early careers as dead.
Brainstorm was still present for many of the recordings and mastering of the album Six Feet Deep at Fire House Studios, although he had moved out of Brooklyn down to New Orleans, Louisiana and Columbus, Georgia in 1992, then to Birmingham, Alabama 1994.
Poetic, still optimistic despite the turn of events, waited patiently to reunite with Brainstorm to spark the old-school Golden-Age of Hip Hop Flavor that made him hone his original following.
The Gravediggaz' album Six Feet Deep (also known as Niggamortis),was Certified Gold and received rave reviews for their original and much misunderstood "horrorcore" angle, spawning countless groups and admirers of the genre in the mid to late 90s.
Among them were their brother E-Sharp (Eddie "Goalfingaz"), Flatlinerz-Gravediggaz Omen (now known as OMN 999), Sun of Man's Shabazz the Disciple, Shaqueen (Ma Barker), Amaze, Malik, Smuggler, Rhyme Valor, singer-songwriter Bell Muhammad, and others.