Heavy Mental

Artist: Killah Priest
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music

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Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 720642497111
EAN: 0720642497111
ASIN: B000005ZKY

Release Date: 1998-03-10

Heavy Mental

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Tracks:

Intro
One Step
Blessed Are Those
From Then Till Now
Cross My Heart
Fake MC's
It's Over
Crusaids
Tai Chi
Heavy Mental
If You Don't Know
Atoms to Adam
High Explosives
Wisdom
B.I.B.L.E.
Mystic City
Information
Science Project
Almost There
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Killah Priest's Debut = The best Wu-Tang album by a non-member. .......2007-03-08

Heavy Mental was the debut album from Killah Priest. He first emerged with the single, B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth), which was included as the final track on GZA's seminal Wu-Tang classic, Liquid Swords. Initially signed to Geffen Records at the behest of Wu-Tang stalwart GZA, who helped develop his talent, Killah Priest went on to make one of the deepest and most thought-provoking albums in '90s era hip-hop.

The main reason why I had to add this album to my Wu-Tang collection was Track 4, From Then Till Now, a powerfully haunting track where Killah Priest spits ill rhymes commenting on the grim realities of that project-dwelling black folks deal with today while paying tribute to the glory and splendor of Nubian ancestors from ages past. This song was featured in the opening scenes of the movie, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, starring Forest Whitaker (Oscar Winner, Best Actor, The Last King of Scotland). If you're looking for a lot of rap songs glorifying excess, greed, drug dealing, pimping, and misogyny, you will not find them on this album. Killah Priest is strictly for cats looking for more out of their rap lyrics than the usually mainstream rubbish.

Heavy Mental, the title track, is especially daring and experimental. Killah Priest employs a Spoken Word Poetry-style delivery and utilizes an ancient Aboriginal wind instrument called a derrigeroo on that track to give it a primal edginess unlike anything that's ever been heard before. Clan members GZA, Inspecktah Deck, Ol' Dirty Bastard, and affiliate group Sunz of Man also made guest appearances on the album. Other stand out tracks include One Step, Blessed Are Those, Tai Chi, It's Over, and High Explosives. The beats, sampling, and production on this album overall, are top-notch.

In closing, I'd just like to say that this album was worth every penny I paid to have it and I look forward hearing the rest of Killah Priest's albums. As an MC with a near-limitless lyrical eloquence and vocabulary, Killah Priest "kept it real" on Heavy Mental.

If you bought 50's disc(s) don't buy this........2006-07-23

This album is one of my favorites. It's got what I look for in quality beats that match up with more than quality rhymes. Killah Priest has far more to say that most pop rappers and that to me makes all the difference.

Two lines standout, "one half my crew is aitheist, the other half is waiting on the spaceship." and "too many gangstas in the West wanna be rappers, to many rappers in the East wanna be gangstas..." just imagine those clowns from Mobb Deep or DMX or "the Game" and you'll realize that you're listening to a man who understands.

Killah Priest - Heavy Mental.......2006-04-10

Alright, yea I can agree with ALL you people who say that this album can GET boring and it moves TOO slow and sh**. But hey, Killah Priest can SPIT! This guy man, his vocab is top-notch. His stories he tells are insanely amazing. I mean, theres hardly any other emcees out there in the game that can throw out and spit sh** like Killah Priest does, thats all I got to say. His lyrics on this album, are perfect, everything that he spits, this guy puts ALOT of thought into his music, and I respect him for that on the real. The production, now im feelin it right, some of the beats are a tiny bit to plain, but hey he likes that real grimey sound right? Got to have it that way so I respect his choice for production. This album is good in all ways. This album is to be respected no matter WHAT! The song "B.I.B.L.E" youve heard it on "Liquid Swords" also. He spits mad rhymes on there too. Check this album out, he spits! And yes, this album will get you amped to go to the library, lmao.

My Top 5 Songs
1.Cross My Heart
2.Fake MC's
3.If You Dont Know
4.High Explosives
5.Science Project

Amazing.......2006-03-21

This is an unbelievable album, from start to finish. The lyrics are genius, crafted like you've never heard before. The religious imagery and historical illusions throughout will have you opening up you're bible and searching Google. I can not say enough about this album, it is truly unique, even among Wu-Tang albums which is quite a feet. It might not be the greatest album in hip-hop history but it certainly is the most interesting.

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