Heavy Mental [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Killah Priest

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 10, 1998)
• Original Release Date: March 10, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Fontana Geffen
• ASIN: B000005ZKZ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,472 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

URB
Killah Priest's debut solo album won't make you forget the ... conceptual vision, but his nurtured and understated deliveries are a welcome change from the clamorous ballyhooing that surrounds hip-hop every day.... [He] does hit on the occasional nugget of intelligentsia, but his pseudo-scientific lyricism sounds too much like he's trying to impress the teacher. Still, if ... this doesn't quench your thirst, you should go seek professional help.

What the Critics Say
[W]ith a powerful, slow-stepping near-concept album ... [featuring] lugubrious pace, sophisticated loops of orchestral, cinematic bent, and a load of guff on top ... Killah Priest exhibits a subtle, eerie finesse of his own.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gets you amped... to go to the library, April 12, 2000

By	supastar (brooklyn) - See all my reviews

Killah Priest obviously did "study till my eyes were swollen," and he's got a passion for the supernatural as expressed by the Jews. He transforms New York into Judah the way the rest of the Wu made staten island Shaolin. He is incredibly knowledgeable "The white image of christ is really caesar bongarie, and a the second son of pope alexander." He's got a vision for purity of people, but he is still nasty. His name is perfect. The title track is the epitome of his overload of imagery, scriptural references, and vision. I thought the production was excellent even if rza didn't touch it. 4th disciple and true master and the rest put together some incredible music that goes with Kllah priests rhymes. And Killah Priest drops more knowledge than I've ever heard from a rapper. He's got a longing for something in his voice, a depressed kind of exiled voice (like the Israel nation he compares his experience to). He's also got that yelling thing, like on Cross My Heart, and I like that too. "See me outside your show browsing, beating up your soundman!" I reccomend this album, but like others say, its different, more contemplative, something you listen to in a walkman because it does demand more attention if youre going to get the most of it. Not by any means a party album, though Cross My Heart is as good and amped up as most any Wu song I've heard.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Killah U Should Be makin millions not 50 cent and chingy, February 25, 2004

By	P. Mcmahon "Skeeter" (Dallas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

when i listen to killah priest and pharoahe monch and then i turn on BET and i hear chingy one call away it almost makes me wanna cry! if killah priest had 30 seconds to spit and chingy had 30 minutes to spit i wonder would win? killah priest raps about stuff that mattes in the life and how it's like in brooklyn while chingy is saying ur one call away i would knock chingy so hard if i ever saw him gosh go get this compact disc right now or at least check out b.i.b.l.e.

10 of 10 lyrics 10 of 10 beats

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Mentally Dead have awaken!, July 21, 1999

By	KAH (A-L-B,NY) - See all my reviews

For those who put comments complaining about my man Priest's beats, you are not getting the point. Why would he need to have extravagant beats from the RZA? That would take away from his message. The beats are simple because his rhymes are complex. Killah Priest has arrived to trample those "Fake Mc's", and let them know that "It's Over" and let them know they should read "The BIBLE" and get "Information" about what's going on. I don't have a complaint about my Priest's album. If I could have, I would have given the album 20 stars. This is lyrical perfection. Heavy Mental indeed!!!